870s in poetry

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

Events
870:
 * Approximate date of completion of the Muspilli
 * Approximate date of the Kakawin Rāmâyaṇa

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:

872:
 * Ki no Tsurayuki (died 945), Japanese waka poet

873:
 * Fujiwara no Sadakata (died 932), Japanese poet

875:
 * Lady Ise (died 938), a prominent woman waka poet

877:
 * Fujiwara no Kanesuke (died 933), one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan

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

870:
 * Wen Tingyun (born 812), Chinese lyricist of the late Tang dynasty who helped establish the Ci in chinese poetry

877:
 * Johannes Scotus Eriugena (born 815), among the last Hiberno-Latin poets

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