Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1341:
Petrarch becomes Poet Laureate in Rome.
1340:
Raimon de Cornet and Peire de Ladils compose a partimen
1343:
Glorios Dieus, don totz bens ha creysensa, an anonymous planh for Robert of Naples
1345:
Petrarch, De Vita Solitaria, Italy
1348:
Peire Lunel de Montech writes Meravilhar no·s devo pas las gens on the occasion of the Black Death
c. 1340–1349:
Dafydd ap Gwilym writes The Girls of Llanbadarn and The Seagull
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:
1343:
Geoffrey Chaucer (died 1400), English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat
1348:
Jan of Jenštejn (died 1400), Archbishop of Prague who was a poet, writer and composer.
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
1342:
Eifuku-mon In (born 1271), Japanese poet of the Kamakura period and member of the Kyōgoku school of verse
U Tak (born 1262), Korea
1343:
Ke Jiusi (born 1290), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Yuan Dynasty
1345:
Manuel Philes (born 1275), Byzantine
Qiao Ji (borb unknown), Chinese dramatist and poet in the Yuan Dynasty
1347:
Kokan Shiren (born 1278), Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated poet in Chinese
1348:
Jacopo Alighieri (born 1289), Italian poet, the son of Dante Alighieri
Sesson Yūbai (born 1290), Japanese Rinzai priest and poet
1349:
Ibn al-Yayyab (born 1274), statesman and poet from the Nasrid kingdom of Granada
Hamdollah Mostowfi (born 1281), Iranian historian, geographer and epic poet
