1080s in poetry
# 1080s in poetry

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

## Events

1086:

* Compilation of the Goshūi Wakashū, the fourth imperial Japanese poetry anthology, completed

## Works produced

1087:

* "The Rime of King William"

## 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:

1080:

* Sanai (died 1131), Persian Sufi poet

1084:

* Li Qingzhao (died 1151), Song

1085:

* Bernard Silvestris (died 1148), a Latin poet in France

1089:

* Abraham ibn Ezra (died 1164), Hebrew poet in Al-Andalus

## Deaths

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

1083:

* Zeng Gong (born 1019), Song poet, scholar and historian

1086:

* Muhammad ibn Ammar (born 1031), Arabic poet, ruler and chess player in Al-Andalus (killed for treachery)
* Wang Anshi (born 1021), Song economist, statesman, chancellor and poet

1088:

* Nasir Khusraw (born 1004), Persian poet, philosopher, scholar and traveler
* Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (born 1006), Afghan poet, also known as "Shaikul Mashayekh" (Arabic: شیخ المشایخ) [Master of (Sufi) Masters]

1089:

* Isaac ibn Ghiyyat (born 1038), a Hebrew poet in al-Andalus
