Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1181:
Bertran de Born's first datable poem, a sirventes
1183:
Ordering of the Senzai Wakashū, an imperial Japanese poetry anthology
Bertran de Born composed a planh, "Mon chan fenisc ab dol et ab maltraire", on the death of Henry the Young King. Rigaut de Berbezill composed another, "Si tuit li dol e.l plor e.l marrimen", as did Peire Raimon de Tolosa.
1187:
Compilation of the Senzai Wakashū, ordered in 1183
1180:
Approx. date of Khusraw and Shirin by Nezami
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:
1180:
August 6 - Emperor Go-Toba (died 1239), Japanese Emperor, calligrapher, painter, musician, poet, critic, and editor
4 September — Raimbaut de Vaqueiras (died 1207), Provençal troubadour and knight
Kambar (died 1250), medieval Tamil poet and the author of the Ramavataram
Peire Cardenal (died 1278), an Occitan troubadour
1181:
Ibn al-Farid (died 1235), Arabic Sufi poet
1184:
Ibn al-Farid (died 1235), Arabic Sufi poet
Sa‘di (died 1283/1291), Persian poet
Ahmad al-Tifashi (died 1253), Arabic poet, writer, and anthologist, in Tunisia
1186:
Baha' al-din Zuhair (died 1258), Arabian poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
1180:
Minamoto no Yorimasa (born 1106), Japanese poet
John Tzetzes (born 1110), Byzantine
Zhu Shuzhen (born 1135), Chinese poet of the Song dynasty
1183:
Wace (born 1115), Anglo-Norman poet and author of the Roman de Brut and Roman de Rou
1187:
November 9 - Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty (born 1107)
1189:
Anvari (born 1126), Persian
