1290 in poetry

Events

Works

• Heinrich Frauenlob writes Frauenleich and Alle Freude verlässt mich

Births

• Abu Es Haq es Saheli (died 1346), Andalusī-born Arabic poet and architect
• Jyotirishwar Thakur (died 1350), Sanskrit poet and early Maithili writer
• Jakushitsu Genkō (died 1367), Japanese Rinzai master, poet, flute player and first abbot of Eigen-ji
• Ke Jiusi (died 1343), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet during the Yuan dynasty
• Sesson Yūbai (died 1348), Japanese Rinzai priest and poet

Deaths

• Guido delle Colonne (born 1215) Sicilian writer, in Latin
• Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera (born 1225), Hebrew poet in Al-Andalus
• Tran Thanh Tong (born 1240), Vietnamese poet and ruler