1209 in poetry

Events

• Guillem Augier Novella penned A People Grieving for the Death of their Lord, a planh on the death of Raymond Roger Trencavel. ^[1]
• Gui d'Ussel, in obedience to a papal injunction from Pierre de Castelnau, ceased composing and writing. ^[2]

Births

• Shang Ting (died 1288), writer of Chinese Sanqu poetry

Deaths

• Nizami Ganjavi (born 1141), Persian romantic epic poet
• Ruzbihan Baqli (born 1128), Persian poet, mystic, and Sufi

References

1. Graham-Leigh, Elaine (2005). The southern French nobility and the Albigensian Crusade. Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: Boydell Press. pp. 30–31. ISBN   978-1-84615-429-4. OCLC   666925270.
2. Aubrey, Elizabeth (1996). The music of the troubadours. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 16. ISBN   0-253-33207-9. OCLC   34283373.