Europe Poets Cædmon likely flourishes from approximately 657 to 680 in Northumbria Laidcenn mac Buith Bannaig, Irish (d. 661) Works Cædmon's Hymn, Old English Dream of the Rood, Old English, possible date Hisperica Famina, Hiberno-Latin Byzantine Empire Poets George Pisida, in Greek Arabic world Poets Abu 'Afak, from Hijaz, a Jewish poet writing in Arabic Layla al-Akhyaliyya, early Banu Uqayl tribe female poet Al-Rabi ibn Abu al-Huqayq fl. in Arabia just before the Hejira Eleazar Kalir, from Kirjath-sepher, writing in Hebrew Al-Khansa, in Arabia, early Islamic woman poet Jabal ibn Jawwal, a Jewish convert to Islam, in Arabic Births of Arab-language poets al-Akhtal (c. 640–710) Kumait Ibn Zaid (679–743) Kuthayyir (ca. 660-ca. 723) Deaths of Arab-language poets Maymun Ibn Qays Al-a'sha (570–625) Antarah ibn Shaddad (525–608) Durayd ibn al-Simmah (d. 630) Hassan ibn Thabit (d. c. 674) Labīd (560–661) Qays ibn al-Mullawah (d. 688) al-Tirimmah (died c. 723) Works Recitation of the Qur'an (approx. 609–632) and compilation of the final version under Uthman (650s?) China Poets Luo Binwang (640 – 684), Chinese writer and poet, recognized as of the Four Greats of the Early Tang Wang Bo (649 – 676), Tang dynasty poet Shen Quanqi (650 – 729), Tang dynasty poet He Zhizhang (659 – 744), Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty and one of the Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup Chen Zi'ang (661 – 702), Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty Shangguan Wan'er (664 – 710), Chinese poet, writer, and politician Zhang Jiuling (673 – 740), prominent minister, noted poet and scholar of the Tang dynasty Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (685 – 762), emperor and poet Meng Haoran (689 or 691 – 740), Chinese poet especially of the landscape, history and legends of Xiangyang Wang Changling (698 – 765), Tang dynasty poet Japan Period of introduction of Chinese literature into Japan Poets Abe no Nakamaro 阿倍仲麻呂 (c. 698 – c. 770) scholar, administrator, and waka poet in the Nara period (surname: Abe) 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 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 Princess Nukata 額田王 also known as Princess Nukada (c. 630–690), Asuka period poet Ōtomo no Tabito 大伴旅人 (c. 662–731) poet best known as the father of Ōtomo no Yakamochi; both contributed