800s in poetry

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

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:

800:
 * King Amoghavarsha I, of the Rashtrakuta dynasty, (died 878), king and Kannada poet

802:
 * Ono no Takamura (died 853), Heian period scholar and poet

803:
 * Du Mu (died 852), Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty

805:
 * Abu Tammam (died 845), Arab poet and Muslim convert

806:
 * Tung-Shan (died 869), Buddhist scholar and poet

808:
 * Walafrid Strabo (died 849), Frankish monk, historian, poet and theological writer

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

802:
 * Saint Paulinus II (born between 730 and 740), Patriarch of Aquileia and a member of Charlemagne's court

804:
 * May 19 - Alcuin (born 735), scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria
 * Lu Yu (born 733), the "Sage of Tea"
 * Ibrahim Al-Mausili (born 742), Persian singer and poet

809:
 * Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (born 750), Arab Abbasid poet