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Centuries in poetry: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
Decades in poetry: | 1400s 1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s |
Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
Events
edit- 1445 - Printing press developed in Europe.
Works
edit- Per Raff Lille, Mariaviser ("Songs to Mary"), Denmark[1]
- Stora rimkronikan ("The Great Rhymed Chronicle"), Sweden[1]
- 1402–1403 – Christine de Pisan, Le Livre du chemin de long estude, describing a trial of the faults of this world in the "Court of Reason"[2]
- 1403 – Christine de Pisan, La Mutacion de Fortune ("The Changes of Fortune")[2]
- c.1434 – John Lydgate, The Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr
- c.1470–1485 – Pietru Caxaro, Il Cantilena, oldest known Maltese text
- c.1480s – Robert Henryson, cycle The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian in Scotland
- 1473–1480 – Maladhar Basu, ''Sri Krishna Vijaya (শ্রীকৃষ্ণবিজয়, "Triumph of Lord Krishna"), Bengal
Births and deaths
editMexico
edit- Axayacatl (1449-1481), huey tlatoani (supreme leader or emperor) of Tenochtitlan and poet[3]: 133–153
- Ayocuan Cuetzpaltzin (mid 15th-early 16th centuries) wise man, poet, white eagle from Tecamachalco[3]: 197–209
- Cacamatzin (1483-1520), tlatoani of Texcoco and poet[3]: 109–125
- Chichicuepon (15th century) poet from Chalco (altépetl)[3]: 225–237
- Cuacuauhtzin (1410-1443), tlatoani (ruler) of Tepechpan wrote a poem about his betrayal by Nezahualcoyotl.[3]: 77–87
- Macuilxochitzin (c. 1435-?), daughter of Tlacaelel[3]: 155–169
- Nezahualcoyotl (tlatoani) (1402-1472), ruler of Texcoco (altepetl), poet, and architect[3]: 39–75
- Tecayehuatzin of Huexotzinco (second half of 15th to early 16th century), poet and philosopher (Huexotzinco was a semi-independent state, alternately loyal to the Aztec Empire or to Tlaxcala.)[3]: 183–195
- Temilotzin (end of 15th century-1525), born in Tlatelolco (altepetl) and Tlatoani of Tzilacatlan[3]: 171–179
- Tochihuitzin coyolchiuhqui, (late 14th-mid 15th centuries) Tlatoani and poet from Teotlatzinco, son of Itzcoatl[3]: 127–131
- Xicotencatl I (1425-1522) tlatoani of Tizatlan (Tlaxcala)[3]: 211–221
Europe
edit- Per Raff Lille (c. 1450 — c. 1500), Danish[1]
- Tomas af Strangnas, (died 1443), Swedish[1]
- François Villon (1431–1463), French
- Janus Pannonius (1431–1472), Latin from Hungary
Japan
edit- Arakida Moritake 荒木田守武 (1473–1549), the son of Negi Morihide, and a Shinto priest; said to have excelled in waka, renga, and in particular haikai
- Ikkyū ��宗純, Ikkyū Sōjun 1394–1481), eccentric, iconic, Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest, poet and sometime mendicant flute player who influenced Japanese art and literature with an infusion of Zen attitudes and ideals; one of the creators of the formal Japanese tea ceremony; well-known to Japanese children through various stories and the subject of a popular Japanese children's television program; made a character in anime fiction
- Shōtetsu 正徹 (1381–1459), considered by some the last great poet in the courtly waka tradition; his disciples were important in the development of renga, which led to haiku
- Sōgi 宗祇 (1421–1502), Japanese Zen monk who studied waka and renga poetry, then became a professional renga poet in his 30s
- Yamazaki Sōkan 山崎宗鑑, pen name of Shina Norishige (1465–1553), renga and haikai poet, court calligrapher for Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshihisa; became a secluded Buddhist monk following the shōgun's death in 1489
Persian language
editSouth Asia
edit- Bhalan (c. 1426–1500), Indian, Gujarati-language poet[4]
- Chandidas (চন্ডীদাস) (born 1408 CE) refers to (possibly more than one) medieval Indian Bengali-language poet
- Meerabai (मीराबाई) (1498-1547), alternate spelling: Meera, Mira, Meera Bai; Hindu poet-saint, mystical poet whose compositions, extant version of which are in Gujarati and a Rajasthani dialect of Hindi, remain popular throughout India
- Nund Reshi (1377–1440), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
- Zainuddin (fl. 1470s), Bengali-language poet
See also
editDecades and years
editNotes
edit- ^ a b c d Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ a b Olsen, Kirsten, Chronology of Women's History, p 55, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, ISBN 0-313-28803-8, ISBN 978-0-313-28803-6, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Miguel Leon-Portilla (1978). Trece Poetas del Mundo Azteca [Thirteen Poets of the Aztec World] (in Spanish) (2nd, 1972 ed.). Mexico City: Universidad Nacinal Autonoma de Mexico.
- ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008