1190s in poetry

1195:

• Folquet de Marselha gives up poetry to take up the religious life

1197:

• Salh d'Escola enters a cloister in Bergerac and gives up composing

1198:

• Bertran de Born's last datable poem

1199:

• Gaucelm Faidit composes a planh on the death of Richard I of England

1190:

• Probable approx. date of The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Old Ukrainian: Слово о пълку Игорєвѣ, Slovo o pŭlku Igorevě)

1192:

• Approx. date of Layla and Majnun 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:

1190:

• Gonzalo de Berceo (died 1264), Spanish poet especially on religious themes
• Pietro della Vigna (died 1249), Italian jurist, diplomat, poet, and sonneteer of the Sicilian School
• Yuan Haowen (died 1257), Chinese Sanqu poetry writer

1191:

• Janna (died unknown), Kannada poet

1193:

• Shang Dao (died 1258), Chinese Sanqu poet

1196:

• Alberico da Romano (died 1260), patron and troubadour

1198:

• Fujiwara no Tameie (died 1275), Japanese poet

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

1190:

• Khaqani Shirvani (born 1121/1122), Persian
• Saigyō Hōshi (born 1118), Japan

1193:

• Fan Chengda (born 1126), Song

1196:

• Alfonso II of Aragon (born 1157), an Occitan troubadour
• Basava (born 1134), writing in Kannada
• Guilhem de Berguedan (born 1130), troubadour

1197:

• Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1165)
• Owain Cyfeiliog (born 1130), one of the Welsh Poets of the Princes
• Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne, patron of troubadours

1198:

• Tibors de Sarenom (born 1130), trobairitz

1199:

• April 6 – Richard I of England (born 1157), Poitevin and Occitan poet

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