840s 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:

840:
 * Saint Clement of Ohrid (died 916), Bulgarian writer and founder of the Ohrid Literary School

845:
 * Sugawara no Michizane (died 903), Japanese kanshi poet

849:
 * Alfred the Great (died 899)

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

842:
 * Liu Yuxi (born 772), Chinese poet

843:
 * Jia Dao (born 779), Chinese poet of discursive gushi and lyric jintishi

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

846:
 * Bai Juyi (also transliterated as Po Chü-I), (born 772), Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty

849:
 * August 18: Walafrid Strabo (born 808), Frankish monk, historian, poet and theological writer