1386:

• Venetian ambassador Lorenzo de Monacis writes a poem defending Hungarian queens Mary and Elizabeth from charges of murdering Charles II of Hungary.^[1]

• Piruç myò doç inculurit, Friulian language (probably 1380)
• Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde^[2] (exact year uncertain)

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:

1380:

• Laurent de Premierfait (died 1418), Latin poet, humanist and translator
• Azari Tusi (died 1462), Persian poet

1381:

• Krittibas Ojha (died 1461), Bengali poet
• Shōtetsu (died 1459), Japanese Waka poet

1387:

• Badr Shirvani (died 1450), Persian poet

1388:

• Nguyễn Trãi (died 1442), Vietnamese Confucian scholar, poet, politician and tactician

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

1385:

• Munenaga (born 1311), imperial prince and a poet of the Nijō poetic school of Nanboku-chō period

1388:

• Gidō Shūshin (born 1325), Japanese luminary of the Zen Rinzai sect, was a master of poetry and prose in Chinese

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