940s in poetry

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Works published
941:
 * Adipurana by Adikavi Pampa

945:
 * Publication of Ten Styles of Tadamine by Mibu no Tadamine (approx)

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:

940:
 * Ferdowsi (died 1020), Persian poet, author of Shahnameh

949:
 * Fujiwara no Nagayoshi (died unknown), Japanese poet and a court bureaucrat of the Heian period
 * Ranna (died unknown), writing in Kannada language (approx.)

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

941:
 * Rudaki (born 858), Persian poet in the Perso-Arabic alphabet or "New Persian" script

943:
 * Fujiwara no Atsutada, 藤原敦忠, also 権中納言敦忠; also known as 本院中納言 ("Hon'in Chunagon") and 琵琶中納言 ("Biwa Chunagon"), (born 906), middle Heian period waka poet and nobleman; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; one of his poems is included in the Hyakunin Isshu anthology

945:
 * Ki no Tsurayuki (born 872), Japanese author, poet and courtier of the Heian period

948:
 * Minamoto no Kintada (born 889), one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan