15th century in poetry

Events

• 1445 - Printing press developed in Europe.

  Works

• Per Raff Lille, Mariaviser, Denmark
• Stora rimkronikan, Sweden
• 1402-1403 - Christine de Pisan, Le Livre du chemin de long estude, describing a trial of the faults of this world in the "Court of Reason"
• 1403 - Christine de Pisan, La Mutacion de Fortune
• c.1434 - John Lydgate, The Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr
• c.1470-1485 - Pietru Caxaro, Il Cantilena, oldest known Maltese text
• c.1480s - Robert Henryson, cycle The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian in Scotland
• 1473-1480 - Maladhar Basu, Sri Krishna Vijaya'', Bengal

  Births and deaths

Mexico

• Axayacatl, huey tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and poet
• Ayocuan Cuetzpaltzin wise man, poet, white eagle from Tecamachalco
• Cacamatzin, tlatoani of Texcoco and poet
• Chichicuepon poet from Chalco
• Cuacuauhtzin, tlatoani of Tepechpan wrote a poem about his betrayal by Nezahualcoyotl.
• Macuilxochitzin, daughter of Tlacaelel
• Nezahualcoyotl , ruler of Texcoco, poet, and architect
• Tecayehuatzin of Huexotzinco, poet and philosopher
• Temilotzin, born in Tlatelolco and Tlatoani of Tzilacatlan
• Tochihuitzin coyolchiuhqui, Tlatoani and poet from Teotlatzinco, son of Itzcoatl
• Xicotencatl I tlatoani of Tizatlan

  Europe

• Per Raff Lille, Danish
• Tomas af Strangnas,, Swedish
• François Villon, French
• Janus Pannonius, Latin from Hungary

  Japan

• Arakida Moritake 荒木田守武, the son of Negi Morihide, and a Shinto priest; said to have excelled in waka, renga, and in particular haikai
• Ikkyū 休宗純, Ikkyū Sōjun 1394-1481), eccentric, iconic, Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest, poet and sometime mendicant flute player who influenced Japanese art and literature with an infusion of Zen attitudes and ideals; one of the creators of the formal Japanese tea ceremony; well-known to Japanese children through various stories and the subject of a popular Japanese children's television program; made a character in anime fiction
• Shōtetsu 正徹, considered by some the last great poet in the courtly waka tradition; his disciples were important in the development of renga, which led to haiku
• Sōgi 宗祇, Japanese Zen monk who studied waka and renga poetry, then became a professional renga poet in his 30s
• Yamazaki Sōkan 山崎宗鑑, pen name of Shina Norishige, renga and haikai poet, court calligrapher for Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshihisa; became a secluded Buddhist monk following the shōgun's death in 1489

  Persian language

• Jami, poet
• Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, poet

  South Asia

• Bhalan, Indian, Gujarati-language poet
• Chandidas refers to medieval Indian Bengali-language poet
• Meerabai , alternate spelling: Meera, Mira, Meera Bai; Hindu poet-saint, mystical poet whose compositions, extant version of which are in Gujarati and a Rajasthani dialect of Hindi, remain popular throughout India
• Nund Reshi, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet

  Decades and years