15th century in poetry

Events

Moses da Rieti, Miqdash me'at, Hebrew poet writing in Italy
Per Raff Lille, Mariaviser ("Songs to Mary"), Denmark^[1]
Stora rimkronikan ("The Great Rhymed Chronicle"), Sweden^[1]
1402â1403 â Christine de Pisan, Le Livre du chemin de long estude, describing a trial of the faults of this world in the "Court of Reason"^[2]
1403 â Christine de Pisan, La Mutacion de Fortune ("The Changes of Fortune")^[2]
c.1434 â John Lydgate, The Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr
c.1470â1485 â Pietru Caxaro, Il Cantilena, oldest known Maltese text
c.1480s â Robert Henryson, cycle The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian in Scotland
1473â1480 â Maladhar Basu, ''Sri Krishna Vijaya (à¦¶à§à¦°à§à¦à§à¦·à§à¦£à¦¬à¦¿à¦à¦¯à¦¼, "Triumph of Lord Krishna"), Bengal

Axayacatl (1449-1481), huey tlatoani (supreme leader or emperor) of Tenochtitlan and poet^[3]^{:â133â153â}
Ayocuan Cuetzpaltzin (mid 15th-early 16th centuries) wise man, poet, white eagle from Tecamachalco^[3]^{:â197â209â}
Cacamatzin (1483-1520), tlatoani of Texcoco and poet^[3]^{:â109â125â}
Chichicuepon (15th century) poet from Chalco (altÃ©petl)^[3]^{:â225â237â}
Cuacuauhtzin (1410-1443), tlatoani (ruler) of Tepechpan wrote a poem about his betrayal by Nezahualcoyotl.^[3]^:â77â87â
Macuilxochitzin (c. 1435-?), daughter of Tlacaelel^[3]^{:â155â169â}
Nezahualcoyotl (tlatoani) (1402-1472), ruler of Texcoco (altepetl), poet, and architect^[3]^:â39â75â
Tecayehuatzin of Huexotzinco (second half of 15th to early 16th century), poet and philosopher (Huexotzinco was a semi-independent state, alternately loyal to the Aztec Empire or to Tlaxcala.)^[3]^{:â183â195â}
Temilotzin (end of 15th century-1525), born in Tlatelolco (altepetl) and Tlatoani of Tzilacatlan^[3]^{:â171â179â}
Tochihuitzin coyolchiuhqui, (late 14th-mid 15th centuries) Tlatoani and poet from Teotlatzinco, son of Itzcoatl^[3]^{:â127â131â}
Xicotencatl I (1425-1522) tlatoani of Tizatlan (Tlaxcala)^[3]^{:â211â221â}

Arakida Moritake èæ¨ç°å®æ¦ (1473â1549), the son of Negi Morihide, and a Shinto priest; said to have excelled in waka, renga, and in particular haikai
IkkyÅ« ä¼å®ç´, IkkyÅ« SÅjun 1394â1481), 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
ShÅtetsu æ£å¾¹ (1381â1459), 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
SÅgi å®ç¥ (1421â1502), Japanese Zen monk who studied waka and renga poetry, then became a professional renga poet in his 30s
Yamazaki SÅkan å±±å´å®é, pen name of Shina Norishige (1465â1553), renga and haikai poet, court calligrapher for ShÅgun Ashikaga Yoshihisa; became a secluded Buddhist monk following the shÅgun's death in 1489

Bhalan (c. 1426â1500), Indian, Gujarati-language poet^[4]
Chandidas (à¦à¦¨à§à¦¡à§à¦¦à¦¾à¦¸) (born 1408 CE) refers to (possibly more than one) medieval Indian Bengali-language poet
Meerabai (à¤®à¥à¤°à¤¾à¤¬à¤¾à¤) (1498-1547), 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 (1377â1440), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
Zainuddin (fl. 1470s), Bengali-language poet