title: 820s in poetry
text: # 820s in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  825:
  
  * Approximate date of completion of the Heliand
  
  ## 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:
  
  820:
  
  * al-Buhturi (died 897), Arabian poet
  
  825:
  
  * Ariwara no Narihira (died 880), one of the Six best Waka poets
  * Ono no Komachi (died 900), an early woman poet and also one of the Six best Waka poets
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  821:
  
  * December 18 - Theodulf of Orléans (born between 750 and 760), in Angers
  
  824:
  
  * Han Yu (born 768), Chinese essayist and poet
  
  826:
  
  * Theodore the Studite (born 759), Byzantine monk and abbot
  
  828:
  
  * Abu al-Alahijah (born unknown), Islamic poet famous for writing homilies
  * Abu-l-'Atahiya (born 748), Arab poet
  * Al-Asma'i (born 740), Arab scholar and poet
  