11th century in poetry

Europe

Events

• The surviving Beowulf manuscript likely dates to the early 11th century.
• Emergence of Occitan as a literary language and of the first troubadors.
• King Bleddyn ap Cynfyn enacts new laws regulating the activities of Welsh bards and musicians around 1070.

  Poets

• Boyan, an early skald of Rus'.
• Bersi Skáldtorfuson flourishes in Iceland at the beginning of the century.

  Byzantine Empire

• Christopher of Mytilene
• John Mauropous

  The Arabic World

• Al-Saraqusti al-Jazzar,
• Samuel ibn Naghrillah

  Births in the Arabic world

• al-Sharif al-Radi,
• Ibn Ammar
• Ibn Khafajah,
• Moses ibn Ezra, Hebrew poet in Al-Andalus
• Ibn Quzman

  Deaths in the Arab world

• Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani
• Abu ibn Abd Allah al-Ma'arri
• Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad , poet-ruler in Al-Andalus
• Ibn Ammar, in Al-Andalus
• Wallada bint al-Mustakfi

  The Turkic World

• Oral traditions of Epic of Köroğlu
• Uyghur poet Yusuf Khass Hajib of Balasagun in the Kara-Khanid Khanate completes the Kutadgu Bilig and presents it to the prince of Kashgar in 462

  Persia

Works

• Firdawsi's Shahnameh is published in the first decade of the century.
• Qabus nama
• Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam dates to the end of the century.
• Shahryar-nama
• Siyasatnama

  Persian poets

• Baba Taher
• Rabi'a Balkhi, an early women poet
• Asad Gorgani
• Asjadi
• Ferdowsi, poet
• Omar Khayyám, poet
• Hujviri
• Abusaeid Abolkheir
• Sanai Ghaznavi
• Abdul Qadir Jilani
• Manuchihri
• Sanaayi
• Abolfazl Beyhaghi, historian
• Naser Khosrow, traveller, writer and poet
• Farrokhi Sistani, poet
• Baba Tahir Oryan
• Rabi'ah Quzdari
• Abu-al-faraj Runi
• The author of Eskandar name the epic of Alexander
• Keykavus Eskandar
• Nizam al-Mulk, author of Siyasatnama
• Tartusi novelist
• Azraqi
• Masud Sa'd Salman
• Uthman Mukhtari
• Qatran Tabrizi
• Mughatil ibn Bakri
• Asadi Tusi
• Surabadi
• Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi
• Imam Muhammad Ghazali
• Mohammad Raduyani
• Abhari
• Abu l-Abbas Rabinjani
• Abu-Ali Osmani
• Abul-Ma'ali

  India

Events

• Beginning of Hoysala literature in Kannada and Sanskrit

  Works

• Ramavataram

  Poets

• Kambar, writing in Tamil
• Bilhana, Kashmiri

  China

Chinese poets

• Su Shi 蘇軾, Song dynasty writer, poet, painter, calligrapher, pharmacologist, gastronome and statesman, writing in the shi, ci and fu forms; notable works include the First and Second Chibifu, and Shui diao ge tou

  Japan

Japanese works

• Shūi Wakashū 20 scrolls, 1,351 poems, ordered by ex-Emperor Kazan
• Goshūi Wakashū 20 scrolls, approx 1,200 poems, ordered in 1075 by Emperor Shirakawa, completed in 1086

  Japanese poets

• Akazome Emon 赤染衛門 waka poet of the mid-Heian period; a member of both the Thirty-six Elder Poetic Sages and Kintō's 36 female poetry immortals of the Kamakura period
• Fujiwara no Akisue 藤原顕季, late Heian period poet and nobleman, member of the Fujiwara poetic and aristocratic clan
• Fujiwara no Kintō 藤原公任, also known as "Shijō-dainagon", poet and critic; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; has poems in anthologies including the Shūi Wakashū, the Wakan rōeishū, and Shūi Wakashū
• Fujiwara no Tametoki 藤原為時, poet, minor official and governor of various provinces, scholar of Chinese literature and the father of Murasaki Shikibu
• Izumi Shikibu 和泉式部 nicknamed "The Floating Lady" 浮かれ女 for her series of passionate affairs, mid-Heian period poet, novelist and noblewoman; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; known for a sequence of affairs at the court in the capital; close friend of Akazome Emon, rival of Lady Murasaki, and mother of poet Koshikibu no Naishi; poetry praised by Fujiwara no Kinto
• Minamoto no Shunrai, also "Minamoto Toshiyori", poet who compiled the Gosen Wakashū anthology; passed over to compile the Goshūi Wakashū, Shunrai's angry polemical, "Errors in the Goshūishū", apparently led Emperor Shirakawa to appoint him to compile the Kin'yō Wakashū imperial anthology, which was itself controversial
• Murasaki Shikibu 紫 式 部, not her real name, which is unknown; often called "Lady Murasaki", Heian period novelist who wrote The Tale of Genji, poet, and a maid of honor of the imperial court
• Nōin 能因, lay name: Tachibana no Nagayasu 橘永愷, late Heian period poet and monk; one of the "Thirty-six Medieval Poetry Immortals"
• Sei Shōnagon 清少納言 , middle Heian Period author, poet and court lady who served Empress Teishi/Empress Sadako; best known as the author of The Pillow Book

  Decades and years