1237 in poetry

Events

 * Sordello composes the first sirventes-planh in order to mark the death of his patron Blacatz

Births

 * Adam de la Halle (died 1288), a French trouvère, poet and musician

Deaths

 * Blacatz (born 1165), Occitan troubadour
 * Hélinand of Froidmont died after 1229 - likely 1237 (born 1160), medieval poet, chronicler, and ecclesiastical writer in Latin
 * Fujiwara no Ietaka (born 1158), Japanese Kamakura period waka poet