8th century in poetry

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East Asia

Events

Chinese poetry in the Tang dynasty develops into what is now considered to be of the characteristic style known as Tang poetry, highlighted by the work of Li Bai and Du Fu.
Japanese poetry emerges, and the first imperial poetry anthologies are compiled
759
- Japanese general Otomo no Yakamochi compiles the first Japanese poetry anthology, Man'yōshū, containing some 500 poems by Japanese poets who include the emperor, nobleman and commoners.
- December 24 – Tang dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, staying with his fellow poet Pei Di, where he composes poems about life in his thatched cottage.

Chinese Poets

Wang Wei (701–761), Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter and statesman
Li Bai (701–762), Chinese poet, one of the "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup"
Cui Hao (704–754), Chinese poet especially of women, frontier outposts, and natural scenery
Qian Qi (710–782), Chinese poet
Du Fu (712–770), Chinese poet especially of historical subjects
Wei Yingwu (737–792), Chinese poet whose works are included in the Three Hundred Tang Poems
Quan Deyu (759–818), chancellor of the Tang dynasty and poet
Han Yu (768–824), a precursor of Neo-Confucianism as well as an essayist and poet
Xue Tao (768–831), female Chinese poet
Bai Juyi (772–846), Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty, writing poems themed around his responsibilities as a governor; renowned in Japan as well
Liu Yuxi (772–842), Chinese poet, philosopher, and essayist
Liu Zongyuan (773–819), Chinese writer and poet
Jia Dao (779–843), Chinese poet of discursive gushi and lyric jintishi
Yuan Zhen (779–831), Chinese writer and poet of the middle Tang dynasty known for his work Yingying's Biography
Li He (790–816), Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty, known for his unconventional and imaginative style
Lu Tong (790–835), Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty, known for his tea poems
Niu Yingzhen, Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty

Japanese Poets

Abe no Nakamaro 阿倍仲麻呂 (c. 698 – c. 770), scholar, administrator, and waka poet in the Nara period (surname: Abe)
Fujiwara no Hamanari 藤原浜成 (724–790), poet and a nobleman of the Nara period; best known for Kakyō Hyōshiki, the oldest extant piece of Japanese poetic criticism, in which he attempts to apply phonetic rules of Chinese poetry to Japanese poetry; son of Fujiwara no Maro
Fujiwara no Sadakata 藤原定方, also known as "Sanjo Udaijin" 三条右大臣 (873–932), father of poet Asatada, cousin and father-in-law of Kanesuke; has a poem in Hyakunin Isshu anthology
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro 柿本人麻呂 (c. 662–710), late Asuka period poet, nobleman and government official; the most prominent poet in the Man'yōshū anthology
Lady Kasa 笠女郎 (fl. early 8th century) waka poet, a woman
Kūkai 空海, also known posthumously as "Kōbō-Daishi" 弘法大師 (774–835), monk, scholar, poet, and artist who founded the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism, followers of that school usually refer to him by the honorific title "Odaishisama" お大師様
Empress Jitō 持統天皇 (645–703; 702 in the lunisolar calendar used in Japan until 1873), 41st imperial ruler, fourth empress and a poet
Ōtomo no Sakanoe no Iratsume (c. 700–750), Japanese early Nara period female poet; member of the prestigious Ōtomo clan; has 79 poems in the Man'yōshū anthology (surname: Ōtomo)
Ōtomo no Tabito 大伴旅人 (c. 662–731) poet best known as the father of Ōtomo no Yakamochi; both contributed to compiling the Man'yōshū anthology; member of the prestigious Ōtomo clan; served as governor-general of Dazaifu, the military procuracy in northern Kyūshū, from 728-730
Ōtomo no Yakamochi 大伴家持 (c. 718–785), Nara period statesman and waka poet; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; member of the prestigious Ōtomo clan; son of Ōtomo no Tabito, older brother of Ōtomo no Kakimochi, nephew of Ōtomo no Sakanoe no Iratsume
Sami Mansei 沙弥満誓 ("novice Mansei"), secular name was Kasa no Ason Maro (fl. c. 720), Buddhist priest and poet; a member of Ōtomo no Tabito's literary circle; has poems in the Man'yōshū anthology
Yamabe no Akahito 山部赤人 or 山邊赤人 (700–736), Nara period poet with 13 chōka (long poems) and 37 tanka (short poems) in the Man'yōshū anthology; has been called the kami of poetry, and Waka Nisei along with Kakinomoto no Hitomaro; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
Yamanoue no Okura 山上憶良 (660–733), best known for his poems of children and commoners; has poems in the Man'yōshū anthology
Ōtomo no Sakanoe no Iratsume (c. 700–750), early Nara period female poet; member of the prestigious Ōtomo clan; has 79 poems in the Man'yōshū anthology

Works

759? Man'yōshū, the first Japanese poetry anthology
772 – Kakyō Hyōshiki 歌経標式 (also known as Uta no Shiki ("The Code of Poetry"), a Japanese text on poetics commissioned by Emperor Kōnin and written by Fujiwara no Hamanari, is completed; the one-volume work "is the oldest extant piece of poetic criticism in the Japanese canon"^[1]

Arabic World

Events

Compilation of the Mufaddaliyat (prior to 784) and the Mu'allaqat, the major collections of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry.

Births of Arab poets

Bashshar ibn Burd (714–784)
Khalil ibn Ahmad (718–791)
Al-Asma'i (740–828)
Ibrahim Al-Mausili (742-804)
Abu-l-'Atahiya (748–828)
Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (750–809) (عباس بن الأحنف)
Abu Nuwas (750–813)
Dik al-Jinn (777–849)

Deaths of Arab poets

'Imran ibn Hittan, (died 703)
Ibn Qays al-Ruqayyat (died 704)
Layla al-Akhyaliyyah (died 704)
Waddah al-Yaman (died 708)
al-Akhtal (c. 640–710)
Umar Ibn Abi Rabi'ah (died 712)
Kuthayyir (ca. 660 – c. 723)
Jarir ibn `Atiyah al-Khatfi (died c. 728)
al-Farazdaq (died c. 729)
Dhu al-Rummah (died 735)
Al-'Arji (died 738)
Kumait Ibn Zaid (679–743)
al-Walid ibn Yazid (died 744)
Salih ibn 'Abd al-Quddus (d. 784)
Bashshar ibn Burd (714–784)
Khalil ibn Ahmad (718–791)

Europe

Poets

Maria Alphaizuli, referred to as the Arabian Sappho
Angilbert (c. 760 - 814), Frankish ecclesiastic and poet, canonized
Paulinus of Aquileia (c. 730/40 - 802) Italian ecclesiastic and poet
Blathmac mac Con Brettan, Irish fili
Niníne Éces, Irish (d. c. 700)

Works

Likely period for the first composition of the poems that are ultimately compiled in the Beowulf manuscript
Dream of the Rood, Old English, possible date
Blathmac mac Con Brettan, Tan cucam a Mhuire and Oh Mhaire, a grain on cloine!
Niníne Éces, Admuinemmar nóeb-Patraicc
Paulinus of Aquileia, Carmen de regula fidei

Byzantine Empire

Poets

Saint Andrew of Crete (ca. 650 – July 4, 740)

South Asia

Poets

Bharavi, writing in Sanskrit
Magha, writing in Sanskrit
Saraha, writing in Old Hindi

Works

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Notes

^ Rabinovitch, Judith (December 1991). "Wasp Waists and Monkey Tails: A Study and Translation of Hamanari's Uta no Shiki (The Code of Poetry, 772), Also Known as Kakyō Hyōshiki (A Formulary for Verse Based on The Canons of Poetry)". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 51 (2). Harvard-Yenching Institute: 471–560. doi:10.2307/2719287. JSTOR 2719287.

[Rabinovitch-1] Rabinovitch, Judith (December 1991). "Wasp Waists and Monkey Tails: A Study and Translation of Hamanari's Uta no Shiki (The Code of Poetry, 772), Also Known as Kakyō Hyōshiki (A Formulary for Verse Based on The Canons of Poetry)". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 51 (2). Harvard-Yenching Institute: 471–560. doi:10.2307/2719287. JSTOR 2719287.

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