1290 in poetry

Works

 * Heinrich Frauenlob writes Frauenleich and Alle Freude verlässt mich

Births

 * Abu Es Haq es Saheli (died 1346), Andalusī-born Arabic poet and architect
 * Jyotirishwar Thakur (died 1350), Sanskrit poet and early Maithili writer
 * Jakushitsu Genkō (died 1367), Japanese Rinzai master, poet, flute player and first abbot of Eigen-ji
 * Ke Jiusi (died 1343), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet during the Yuan dynasty
 * Sesson Yūbai (died 1348), Japanese Rinzai priest and poet

Deaths

 * Guido delle Colonne (born 1215) Sicilian writer, in Latin
 * Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera (born 1225), Hebrew poet in Al-Andalus
 * Tran Thanh Tong (born 1240), Vietnamese poet and ruler