title: 1080s in poetry
text: # 1080s in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  1086:
  
  * Compilation of the Goshūi Wakashū, the fourth imperial Japanese poetry anthology, completed
  
  ## Works produced
  
  1087:
  
  * "The Rime of King William"
  
  ## 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:
  
  1080:
  
  * Sanai (died 1131), Persian Sufi poet
  
  1084:
  
  * Li Qingzhao (died 1151), Song
  
  1085:
  
  * Bernard Silvestris (died 1148), a Latin poet in France
  
  1089:
  
  * Abraham ibn Ezra (died 1164), Hebrew poet in Al-Andalus
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  1083:
  
  * Zeng Gong (born 1019), Song poet, scholar and historian
  
  1086:
  
  * Muhammad ibn Ammar (born 1031), Arabic poet, ruler and chess player in Al-Andalus (killed for treachery)
  * Wang Anshi (born 1021), Song economist, statesman, chancellor and poet
  
  1088:
  
  * Nasir Khusraw (born 1004), Persian poet, philosopher, scholar and traveler
  * Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (born 1006), Afghan poet, also known as "Shaikul Mashayekh" (Arabic: شیخ المشایخ) [Master of (Sufi) Masters]
  
  1089:
  
  * Isaac ibn Ghiyyat (born 1038), a Hebrew poet in al-Andalus
  