Year 1258 (MCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. February 10 – Siege of Baghdad:...
Poetry (a term derived from the Greek word poiesis, "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities...
Haowen (born 1190), Chinese Sanqu poetry writer Lanfranc Cigala died 1257 or 1258 (born unknown), Genoese nobleman, knight, judge, and man of letters...
Arabic poetry (Arabic: الشعر العربي ash-shi‘r al-‘arabīyy) is one of the earliest forms of Arabic literature. Present knowledge of written poetryin Arabic...
and anthologist, in Tunisia 1186: Baha' al-din Zuhair (died 1258), Arabian poet Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] inpoetry" article: 1180:...
(born 1258), Vietnamese third emperor of the Trần dynasty who was also a prolific writer and poet Poetry portal Poetry 14th century inpoetry 14th century...
Ollamh Síl Muireadaigh Paviot, Jacques (2006). "Odo of Burgundy (d. 1266)". In Murray, Alan V. (ed.). The Crusades: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. ABC-CLIO. p...
"six poetry immortals") are six Japanese poets of the mid-ninth century who were named by Ki no Tsurayuki in the kana and mana prefaces to the poetry anthology...
des Baux Manuscript "V", one of the earliest preserved chansonniers, is compiled in Catalonia. Now in the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice, fr. App. cod. XI....
England, and James I of Aragon Arnaut Catalan and Alfonso X of Castile compose a tenso in which the former uses Occitan and the latter Galician-Portuguese...
the earliest surviving literature in Welsh is poetry dating from this period. The poetic tradition represented in the work of Y Cynfeirdd ("The Early...
000 wooden blocks, thought to have been started in 1236. 1258: February 13 – The House of Wisdom in Baghdad is destroyed by forces of the Mongol Empire...
Caliph al-Nasir. The Abbasids' age of cultural revival and fruition ended in1258 with the sack of Baghdad by the Mongols under Hulagu Khan and the execution...
Emperor Go-Saga orders a new imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry. It will be completed in 1265 by Fujiwara no Tameie, with assistance from Fujiwara no...
twenty-volume imperial anthology consisting of 1,925 Japanese waka ordered in 1259 by the Retired Emperor Go-Saga. Book of Aneirin (Welsh) written (or more...
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