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

Events

Works published

814:

• Text of the Wessobrunn Prayer in Old High German

Births

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:

813:

• Li Shangyin (died 858), Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty

815:

• Johannes Scotus Eriugena (died 877), among the last Hiberno-Latin poets

816:

• Henjo (died 890), one of the Six best Waka poets and Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
• Sosei (died 910), one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals

818:

• Ariwara no Yukihira (died 893), Japanese Heian period courtier, poet and bureaucrat

Deaths

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

810:

• Abu Nuwas (born 756), classical Arabic and Persian poet^a

814:

• February 18 - Angilbert (born c. 760), Frankish ecclesiastic and poet, canonized

816:

• Li He (born 790), Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty

819:

• Liu Zongyuan (born 773), Chinese writer, poet and politician