1340s in poetry

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

Events
1341:
 * Petrarch becomes Poet Laureate in Rome.

Works published
1340:
 * Raimon de Cornet and Peire de Ladils compose a partimen

1343:
 * Glorios Dieus, don totz bens ha creysensa, an anonymous planh for Robert of Naples

1345:
 * Petrarch, De Vita Solitaria, Italy

1346:
 * The Vows of the Heron written in Flemish (approximate date)

1348:
 * Peire Lunel de Montech writes Meravilhar no·s devo pas las gens on the occasion of the Black Death

c. 1340–1349:
 * Dafydd ap Gwilym writes The Girls of Llanbadarn and The Seagull

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:

1343:
 * Geoffrey Chaucer (died 1400), English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat

1348:
 * Jan of Jenštejn (died 1400), Archbishop of Prague who was a poet, writer and composer.

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

1342:
 * Eifuku-mon In (born 1271), Japanese poet of the Kamakura period and member of the Kyōgoku school of verse
 * U Tak (born 1262), Korean poet

1343:
 * Ke Jiusi (born 1290), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet during the Yuan dynasty

1345:
 * Manuel Philes (born 1275), Byzantine poet
 * Qiao Ji (born unknown), Chinese dramatist and poet during the Yuan dynasty

1346
 * Abu Es Haq es Saheli (born 1290), Andalusī-born Arabic poet and architect in the Mali Empire

1347:
 * Kokan Shiren (born 1278), Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated poet in Chinese

1348:
 * Jacopo Alighieri (born 1289), Italian poet, son of Dante Alighieri
 * Sesson Yūbai (born 1290), Japanese Rinzai priest and poet

1349:
 * Ibn al-Yayyab (born 1274) Arabic, statesman and poet from the Nasrid kingdom of Granada
 * Hamdollah Mostowfi (born 1281), Persian historian, geographer and epic poet