1300s in poetry

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

Events

 * 1308 (approx.): Dante Alighieri begins to write the Divine Comedy.

Works published
1303:
 * Handlyng Synne by Robert Mannyng of Brunne, a devotional work dealing with the theory and practice of morality

1307:
 * Guillaume Guiart, Branche des Royaux lignages, revised version completed

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:

1300:
 * Chūgan Engetsu (died 1375), Japanese poet, occupies a prominent place in Japanese Literature of the Five Mountains

1304:
 * Petrarch (died 1374), Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest Renaissance humanists

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

1300:
 * Guido Cavalcanti (born 1255), Italian poet
 * Folquet de Lunel (born 1244), troubadour from Lunel (in the modern Hérault)

1301:
 * Asukai Gayu (born 1241), Japanese waka poet
 * Zahed Gilani (born 1216), a Persian Sufi

1302:
 * Guan Hanqing (born 1225), Chinese playwright and poet in the Yuan dynasty
 * Roger-Bernard III of Foix (born 1243), the Count of Foix, poet and troubadour

1304:
 * Jehan de Lescurel (born unknown), French medieval poet and composer

1308:
 * Trần Nhân Tông (born 1258), Vietnamese third emperor of the Trần dynasty who was also a prolific writer and poet