title: 1140s in poetry
text: # 1140s in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Works published
  
  1147:
  
  * Bernard Silvestris's Cosmographia presented to the Pope
  
  ## 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:
  
  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
  
  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
  
  ## Deaths
  
  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
  