1190s in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events
1195:
 * Folquet de Marselha gives up poetry to take up the religious life

1197:
 * Salh d'Escola enters a cloister in Bergerac and gives up composing

1198:
 * Bertran de Born's last datable poem

1199:
 * Gaucelm Faidit composes a planh on the death of Richard I of England

Works published
1190:
 * Probable approx. date of The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Old Ukrainian: Слово о пълку Игорєвѣ, Slovo o pŭlku Igorevě)

1192:
 * Approx. date of Layla and Majnun by Nezami

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted:

1190:
 * Gonzalo de Berceo (died 1264), Spanish poet especially on religious themes
 * Pietro della Vigna (died 1249), Italian jurist, diplomat, poet, and sonneteer of the Sicilian School
 * Yuan Haowen (died 1257), Chinese Sanqu poetry writer

1191:
 * Janna (died unknown), Kannada poet

1193:
 * Shang Dao (died 1258), Chinese Sanqu poet

1196:
 * Alberico da Romano (died 1260), patron and troubadour

1198:
 * Fujiwara no Tameie (died 1275), Japanese poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

1190:
 * Khaqani Shirvani (born 1121/1122), Persian
 * Saigyō Hōshi (born 1118), Japan

1193:
 * Fan Chengda (born 1126), Song

1196:
 * Alfonso II of Aragon (born 1157), an Occitan troubadour
 * Basava (born 1134), writing in Kannada
 * Guilhem de Berguedan (born 1130), troubadour

1197:
 * Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1165)
 * Owain Cyfeiliog (born 1130), one of the Welsh Poets of the Princes
 * Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne, patron of troubadours

1198:
 * Tibors de Sarenom (born 1130), trobairitz

1199:
 * April 6 – Richard I of England (born 1157), Poitevin and Occitan poet