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A Confederação dos Tamoios
A Confederação dos Tamoios is an 1856 epic poem by Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães depicting the Tamoios resistance to the Portuguese, a founding work of Brazilian Romanticism.
A Moral Treatise
A Moral Treatise (Traktat moralny) is a long satirical poem by the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, written in 1947 in Washington and published in 1948.
A Night with Hamlet
A Night with Hamlet (Noc s Hamletem) is a long philosophical poem by the Czech poet Vladimír Holan, written between 1949 and 1956 and first published in book form in 1964.
A Song of Blood
A Song of Blood (Кървава песен, also rendered Bloody Song) is an unfinished epic poem by the Bulgarian poet Pencho Slaveykov on the April Uprising of 1876.
A Toldi szerelme
A Toldi szerelme ("Toldi's Love") is an 1879 narrative poem in twelve cantos by the Hungarian poet János Arany, the middle part of his Toldi trilogy.
Aansu
Aansu (आँसू, "Tears") is a 1925 long lyric poem by the Hindi poet Jaishankar Prasad, a major work of the Chhayavad movement that voices grief and longing for a separated beloved.
Achaeans (χαιοί) (Homer)
Achaeans (Ἀχαιοί, Achaioi; title form "χαιοί" is a truncation) are Homer's collective name, with Danaans and Argives, for the Greeks at Troy; linked by scholars to Hittite Ahhiyawa and Egyptian Danaja.
Achilleid
The Achilleid is an unfinished Latin epic by the Roman poet Statius, recounting Achilles' youth from Chiron to his discovery on Scyros and journey to Troy.
Achilles and Patroclus
Achilles (Ἀχιλλεύς) and Patroclus (Πάτροκλος), Homeric Iliad companions: Patroclus's exile from Opus, death in Achilles's armor, shared golden urn burial, ancient lover-versus-comrade debate, and modern reception.
Adhyatma Ramayanam
Adhyatma Ramayanam, also called Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippattu (അദ്ധ്യാത്മരാമായണം), is a foundational Malayalam classic by Thunchath Ezhuthachan, retelling Rama's story in the kilippattu verse form and still recited across Kerala during the month of Karkidakam.
Aeneid
The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem in twelve books by the Roman poet Virgil, written between 29 and 19 BC, telling how Aeneas journeys from Troy to Italy.
Aetia
Aetia (Αἴτια, "Causes") is a four-book elegiac poem by the Hellenistic Greek poet Callimachus, written at Alexandria in the third century BCE and explaining the origins of rituals, customs, and place-names.
Afsaneh
Afsaneh (افسانه, "Legend") is a long Persian poem by Nima Yushij, the father of modern Persian poetry. It founded the foundational She'r-e No movement in 1922.
Ajitanatha Purana
The Ajitanatha Purana (ಅಜಿತನಾಥ ಪುರಾಣ), also called the Ajita Purana, is a Jain epic in Old Kannada composed by Ranna in 993 on the life of the second Tirthankara, Ajitanatha.
Albertus
Albertus, ou l'Âme et le Péché, is an 1832 narrative poem by Théophile Gautier in which an old witch regains youth and seduces the young painter Albertus.
Alexander Tvardovsky
Alexander Tvardovsky (1910–1971) was a Soviet poet and journalist best known for the folk-epic war poem Vasily Tyorkin and for editing the journal Novy Mir.
Alexandreis
The Alexandreis is a Latin epic poem in ten books by Walter of Châtillon, written in the 1170s, telling the life and deeds of Alexander the Great.
Alfabet
Alfabet is a 1981 long poem by the Danish poet Inger Christensen, whose fourteen sections from A to N grow along the Fibonacci sequence while cataloging nature and nuclear threat.
Alpamysh
Alpamysh (Uzbek: Alpomish) is a Turkic heroic dastan, an ornate oral epic whose versions belong to Uzbek, Karakalpak, and Kazakh traditions and holds a place in Uzbek culture like a national epic.
Altazor
Altazor, full title Altazor o el viaje en paracaídas, is a long poem in seven cantos by the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro, published in Madrid in 1931.
Aluda Ketelauri
Aluda Ketelauri (ალუდა ქეთელაური) is an 1888 epic poem by Georgian poet Vazha-Pshavela about a Khevsur warrior who refuses the custom of cutting off his slain enemy's hand.
Amba (Mahabharata)
Amba (अंबा) is a princess of Kashi in the Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata, abducted by Bhishma and reborn as the warrior Shikhandi to cause his fall at Kurukshetra.
Amiraniani
Amiraniani (ამირანიანი) is the conventional name for the cycle of Georgian folk tales about the hero Amirani, dating to around the end of the 2nd millennium BC.
Ananthanatha Purana
The Anantanatha Purana (ಅನಂತನಾಥಪುರಾಣಂ) is a Kannada Jain epic poem composed by Janna in 1230 CE, telling the life of Anantanatha, the 14th Tirthankara, in champu style.
Andha Yug
Andha Yug (अंधा युग, "The Blind Age") is a 1953 Hindi verse play by Dharmvir Bharati retelling the Mahabharata war's final day as an allegory of moral blindness.
Andhra Mahabharatamu
The Andhra Mahabharatamu, also called the Andhra Mahabharatam, is the Telugu rendering of Vyasa's Sanskrit Mahabharata, produced between the 11th and 14th centuries and regarded as the foundational work of classical Telugu literature.
Ang Mahal na Passion
Ang Mahal na Passion is the first published Tagalog pasyon, a verse narrative of Christ's Passion by Gaspar Aquino de Belen, first published in 1703 or 1704.
Annadamangal
Annadamangal (অন্নদামঙ্গল), also called Annada Mangal or Annapurnamangal, is a Bengali mangalkavya composed by Bharatchandra Ray in 1752 at the court of Raja Krishnachandra of Nadia, the last major work of the genre.
Annales
The Annales was an eighteen-book epic by the Roman poet Quintus Ennius narrating Roman history chronologically, and the first major epic in the Latin language.
Anthem of the Decades
Anthem of the Decades is an epic poem by South African poet Mazisi Kunene, written in Zulu and published in his own English translation in 1981.