This article covers 1140s in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

1147:

• Bernard Silvestris's Cosmographia presented to the Pope

1148/1149:

• Ysengrimus by Nivardus.

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:

1140:

• Beatritz de Dia (died unknown), French trobairitz (female troubadour)
• Xin Qiji (died 1207), Chinese Song dynasty poet and military leader
• Dietmar von Aist (died 1171), an early Minnesänger (possible)

1141:

• Nizami Ganjavi (died 1209), Persian romantic epic poet^[1]

1142:

• Farid al-Din Attar (died 1221), Persian

1145:

• Ibn Jubayr (died 1217), geographer, traveler and poet from al-Andalus
• Attar Neyshapuri (died 1221), Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer

1147:

• Raimbaut of Orange (died 1173), Occitan troubadour (approx.)

1149:

• Chand Bardai (died 1200), Hindu Brahmin and the court poet of the Indian king Prithviraj Chauhan

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

1141:

• Yehuda Halevi (born 1075), Hebrew poet in Al-Andalus

1142:

• Yue Fei (born 1103), Song
• Peter Abelard (born 1079), French, writing in Latin

1143:

• Adib Sabir (born unknown), Persian

1147:

• Jaufré Rudel (born unknown), an Occitan troubadour

1148:

• Am'aq (born 1048), Persian poet that carried the title amir al-shu'ara ("Amir of poets")
• Bernard Silvestris (born 1085), a Latin poet in France

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