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:
910:
Fujiwara no Asatada (died 966), one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of JapanMinamoto no Saneakira (died 970), another of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals911:
Minamoto no Shitagō 源順 (died 983), Japanese waka poet, acholar and nobleman; one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber and Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan; author of the Minamoto no Shitagōshū (源順集) poetry collection; some scholars claim that he also wrote the Taketori Monogatari; original compiler of the Wamyō Ruijushō, the first extant Japanese dictionary organized into semantic headings912:
Nakatsukasa (died 991), one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan and the daughter of Lady Ise915:
Al-Mutanabbi (died 965), Arabic poetAbu-Shakur Balkhi (died unknown), Persian poetBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
910:
Sosei (born 816), one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of JapanWei Zhuang (born 836), Chinese poet919:
Clement of Ohrid (born 840), Bulgarian writer and founder of the Ohrid Literary School