1265 in poetry

Works published

 * Shokukokin Wakashū (続古今和歌集, "Collection of Ancient and Modern Times Continued") edited by Fujiwara no Tameie, Fujiwara no Motoie, Fujiwara no Ieyoshi, Fujiwara no Yukiee and Fujiwara no Mitsutoshi: a twenty-volume imperial anthology consisting of 1,925 Japanese waka ordered in 1259 by the Retired Emperor Go-Saga.
 * Book of Aneirin (Welsh) written (or more probably copied) about this date.

Births

 * c. June 1: Dante Alighieri (died 1321), Italian poet of the Middle Ages, author of Divine Comedy

Deaths

 * Philippe de Rémi (born 1210), Old French poet and trouvère