title: 1070s in poetry
text: # 1070s in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  1075:
  
  * Compilation of the Goshūi Wakashū, the fourth imperial Japanese poetry anthology, begun
  
  ## Works published
  
  1077:
  
  * Nam quốc sơn hà (Mountains and Rivers of the Southern Country), asserting the sovereignty of Vietnam's rulers over its lands
  
  ## 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:
  
  1071:
  
  * William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (died 1126), an early Occitan Troubadour
  
  1075:
  
  * Yehuda Halevi (died 1141), Hebrew poet in Al-Andalus
  
  1078:
  
  * Ibn Quzman (died 1160), Spanish writer of classical poetry, especially zéjeles
  
  1079:
  
  * Peter Abelard (died 1142), French, writing in Latin
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  1071:
  
  * Ibn Zaydún (born 1003), Arabic poet
  
  1072:
  
  * Ouyang Xiu (born 1007), Chinese statesman, historian, essayist and poet
  * Asadi Tusi (born unknown), Persian
  * Azraqi (born unknown), Persian
  * Qatran Tabrizi (born 1009), Persian
  
  1077:
  
  * Shao Yong (born 1011), Song Chinese philosopher, cosmologist, poet and historian
  
  1078:
  
  * Michael Psellos (born 1017), Byzantine poet and historian (d. after this date)
  