1040s in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published

Births

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, 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")

Deaths

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

See also

• Poetry
• 11th century in poetry
• 11th century in literature
• List of years in poetry

Other events:

• Other events of the 12th century
• Other events of the 13th century

11th century:

• 11th century in poetry
• 11th century in literature

Notes