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Irish poetry

The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

 or France

French poetry

French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

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Events

1005 - 1007:

• Compilation of the Shūi Wakashū, the third imperial Japanese poetry anthology

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:

1002:

• Mei Yaochen
  Mei Yaochen
  Mei Yaochen was a poet of the Song dynasty. He was one of the pioneers of the "new subjective" style of poetry which characterized Song poetry....
  
   (died 1060), Song
  Song Dynasty
  The Song Dynasty was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty. It was the first government in world history to issue banknotes or paper money, and the first Chinese government to establish a...
  
   poet

1003:

• Ibn Zaydún
  Ibn Zaydún
  Abu al-Waleed Ahmad Ibn Zaydún al-Makhzumi known as Ibn Zaydún was a famous Arab poet of Cordoba and Seville. His romantic and literary life was dominated by his relations with the poetess Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, the daughter of the Ummayad Caliph Muhammad III of Cordoba...
  
   (died 1071), Arabic
  Arabic poetry
  Arabic poetry is the earliest form of Arabic literature. Present knowledge of poetry in Arabic dates from the 6th century, but oral poetry is believed to predate that. Arabic poetry is categorized into two main types, rhymed, or measured, and prose, with the former greatly preceding the latter...
  
   poet

1004:

• Naser Khosrow (died 1088), Persian poet

1007:

• Ouyang Xiu
  Ouyang Xiu
  Ouyang Xiu was a Chinese statesman, historian, essayist and poet of the Song Dynasty. He is also known by his courtesy name of Yongshu, and was also self nicknamed The Old Drunkard 醉翁, or Householder of the One of Six 六一居士 in his old age...
  
   (died 1072), Chinese statesman, historian, essayist and poet of the Song Dynasty
  Song Dynasty
  The Song Dynasty was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty. It was the first government in world history to issue banknotes or paper money, and the first Chinese government to establish a...
  
  

1009:

• Qatran Tabrizi
  Qatran Tabrizi
  Abū-Mansūr Qatrān-i Tabrīzī was a royal Persian poet.He was born in Sahar near Arrah, bihar Tabriz and was the most famous panegyrist of his time in Iran. His full name according to an old manuscript handwritten by the famous poet Anvari Abivardi is Abu Mansur Qatran al-Jili al-Azerbaijani...
  
   (died 1072), Persian poet

Deaths

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

1001:

• Wang Yucheng (born 954), Song
  Song Dynasty
  The Song Dynasty was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty. It was the first government in world history to issue banknotes or paper money, and the first Chinese government to establish a...
  
   poet

1007:

• Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani
  Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani
  Badi' al-Zamān al-Hamadāni or al-Hamadhāni was a Medieval Arab man of letters born in Hamathah . He is best known for his work the maqamat, a collection of 52 episodic stories of a rogue, Abu al-Fath al-Iskandari, as recounted by a narrator, 'Isa b. Hisham...
  
   (born 967), master of Arabic prose

1008:

• Gunnlaugr ormstunga
  Gunnlaugr ormstunga
  Gunnlaugr Ormstunga was an Icelandic poet, born ca. 983. His life is described in Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu, where several of his poems are preserved....
  
   (born 983), Icelandic skald
  Skald
  The skald was a member of a group of poets, whose courtly poetry is associated with the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking Age, who composed and performed renditions of aspects of what we now characterise as Old Norse poetry .The most prevalent metre of skaldic poetry is...
  
  , from injuries sustained after defeating skald Hrafn Önundarson in battle.

See also

• Poetry
  Poetry
  Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
  
  
• 11th century in poetry
  11th century in poetry
  Years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" articles.-Events:* The surviving Beowulf manuscript likely dates to approximately 1000.* Emergence of Occitan as a literary language and of the first troubadors-Poets:* Boyan, an early skald of Rus...
  
  
• 11th century in literature
  11th century in literature
  See also: 11th century in poetry, 10th century in literature, 12th century in literature, list of years in literature.-New books:*1000 - Al-Tasrif, by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi...
  
  
• List of years in poetry

Other events:

• Other events of the 12th century
  11th century
  As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century is the period from 1001 to 1100 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian/Common Era....
  
  
• Other events of the 13th century
  12th century
  As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century is the period from 1101 to 1200 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian/Common Era. In the history of European culture, this period is considered part of the High Middle Ages and is sometimes called the Age of the...
  
  

11th century:

• 11th century in poetry
  11th century in poetry
  Years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" articles.-Events:* The surviving Beowulf manuscript likely dates to approximately 1000.* Emergence of Occitan as a literary language and of the first troubadors-Poets:* Boyan, an early skald of Rus...
  
  
• 11th century in literature
  11th century in literature
  See also: 11th century in poetry, 10th century in literature, 12th century in literature, list of years in literature.-New books:*1000 - Al-Tasrif, by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi...