Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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:
1040:
Muhammad Ibn Abbad Al Mutamid (died 1095), Arabic poet in Al-Andalus
1046:
Masud Sa'd Salman (died 1121), Persian
1048:
May 31: Omar Khayyám (died 1123), Persian polymath, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and poet
Mu'izzi (died 1125), Persian
Am'aq (died 1148), Persian that carried the title amir al-shu'ara ("Amir of poets")
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
1040:
Unsuri (born unknown), Persian poet of the royal court, given the title Malik-us Shu'ara (King of Poets')
Asjadi (born unknown), Persian
Manuchehri (born unknown), Persian, later a royal poet in the court of Sultan Shihab ud-Dawlah Mas'ud I of Ghazni
1041:
Akazome Emon 赤染衛門 (born 956), Japanese waka poet who lived in the mid-Heian period; a member of both the Thirty-six Elder Poetic Sages and Fujiwara no Kintō's 36 female poetry immortals (or "sages") of the Kamakura period (surname: Akazome)
Fujiwara no Kintō (born 966), Japanese poet, publisher of the Shūi Wakashū; he created the concept of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
1049:
Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr (born 967), Persian
Uthman Mukhtari (born unknown), Persian
