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Kissa Raja Rasalu
Kissa Raja Rasalu (ਰਾਜਾ ਰਸਾਲੂ) is the cycle of Punjabi oral and written tales about Raja Rasalu, a legendary hero-king told as a qissa, a long narrative poem.
Kochu Sita
Kochu Sita (കൊച്ചുസീത, "Little Sita") is a Malayalam narrative poem by Vallathol Narayana Menon, first published in the late 1920s, that criticizes the caste customs of Kerala's matrilineal Nair families.
Konrad Wallenrod
Konrad Wallenrod is a narrative poem by Adam Mickiewicz, published in 1828, telling of a Lithuanian raised by the Teutonic Knights who destroys the Order from within.
Koroghlu
Koroghlu (Köroğlu; also Görogly, Gurughli) is an early-17th-century Turkic folk hero and poet whose epic cycle, told in at least 17 versions, spread from Anatolia across Central Asia.
Kosovo Cycle
The Kosovo cycle (Косовски циклус) is a cycle of Serbian oral epic folk poems about the Battle of Kosovo of 1389, forming the central section of Serbian epic poetry.
Koti Brahmanda Sundari
Koti Brahmanda Sundari (କୋଟି ବ୍ରହ୍ମାଣ୍ଡ ସୁନ୍ଦରୀ) is a long Odia narrative poem by the poet Upendra Bhanja, narrating the love and marriage of a princess with prince Pushpaketu of Pataliputra.
Kozy Korpesh and Bayan Sulu
Kozy Korpesh and Bayan Sulu (Қозы Көрпеш – Баян сұлу) is a Kazakh lyric-epic love poem, sung from the 13th–14th centuries and compared to Romeo and Juliet.
Kripa (कृप)
Kripa (कृप, Kripacharya), Brahmin warrior in the Mahabharata: son of sage Sharadvan, twin of Kripi, first teacher of the Kuru princes, Kaurava fighter, one of three Kaurava survivors of the Kurukshetra war, later teacher of Parikshit and one of the Chiranjivi immortals.
Krishnagatha
Krishnagatha (കൃഷ്ണഗാഥ), also called Krishnappattu or simply Cherussery, is a Malayalam narrative poem on the life of Krishna, composed by Cherusseri Namboothiri in the court of Kolathunadu around 1475 in simple Malayalam in the manjari meter.
Krishnakumari
Krishnakumari (কৃষ্ণকুমারী) is a Bengali verse play by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, completed in 1860, the first successful Bengali tragedy and the first Bengali play on a historical theme.
Krittivasi Ramayan
The Krittivasi Ramayan (কৃত্তিবাসী রামায়ণ), also known as Sriram Panchali, is the first Bengali translation of the Ramayana, composed by Krittibas Ojha in the 14th or 15th century.
Kudrun
Kudrun, also Gudrun, is an anonymous Middle High German heroic epic of 1,705 stanzas, composed around 1230/40 in the Bavarian-Austrian region, telling of three generations whose bridal quests and abductions end in reconciliation rather than revenge.
Kumara Sambhavamu
Kumara Sambhavamu ("The Birth of Kumara") is a Telugu epic poem by the 11th- or 12th-century poet Nannechoda, regarded as the first mahakavya in Telugu literature.
Kumara Vyasa Bharata
Kumara Vyasa Bharata, formally titled Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari and also called Gadugina Bharata, is a 15th-century Kannada epic retelling the first ten parvas of the Mahabharata.
Kumarasambhava
Kumarasambhava is a Sanskrit court epic by Kalidasa about the courtship of Shiva and Parvati and the birth of their son, the war god Kumara.
Kumarasambhavam
Kumarasambhavam (కుమారసంభవము, "the birth of Kumara") is a Telugu adaptation of Kalidasa's Sanskrit epic, attributed to the 12th- or 13th-century poet Nannechodadeva and printed in 1909.
Kumbhakarna (कुम्भकर्ण)
Kumbhakarna (कुम्भकर्ण), giant rakshasa brother of Ravana in the Ramayana, cursed with months-long sleep and insatiable hunger; woken for the war against Rama, recast by Kamban as a tragic hero, and read medically as hypothalamic obesity.
Kumulipo
The Kumulipo is the Hawaiian cosmogonic chant of about 2,102 lines, tracing sea life, plants, gods, and humans from primordial darkness to the royal family it honors.
Kunjini
Kunjini (कुञ्जिनी) is a Nepali khandakavya, a short narrative poem by Laxmi Prasad Devkota written around 1945, telling of Kunjini's love for the soldier Gore and her forced marriage.
Kunti (कुन्ती)
Kunti (कुन्ती, birth name Pritha), Mahabharata figure: Pandu's wife, mother of Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, and of Karna by Surya via Durvasa's boon; later renunciant.
Kurukshetra War
The Kurukshetra War (Kuruyuddha) is the eighteen-day battle between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, two branches of the Kuru dynasty, told in the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata.
Kusha (कुश) (Ramayana)
Kusha (कुश), with twin brother Lava, is a son of Rama and Sita in the Ramayana, born in Valmiki's ashram, named after kusha grass, first singer of the epic at Rama's ashvamedha, later ruler of Kosala from Kushasthali.
Kuvayı Milliye Destanı
Kuvayı Milliye Destanı (Kuvâyi Milliye) is an epic poem by the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet retelling the Turkish War of Independence, composed in prison and first published in 1965.
Kuyil Pattu
Kuyil Pattu ("The Cuckoo's Song") is an allegorical narrative poem by the Tamil poet Subramania Bharati, written during his exile in Pondicherry along with Kannan Pattu and Panchali Sabatham.
L'Adone
L'Adone is a mythological epic poem in twenty cantos by the Neapolitan poet Giovan Battista Marino, published in Paris in 1623 and recognized as the longest poem written in the Italian language.
La Araucana
La Araucana is a 16th-century Spanish epic poem by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga about the Spanish conquest of Chile and the war with the Mapuche, published in Madrid in three parts between 1569 and 1589.
La Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata
La Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata is a 1602 epic poem by Martín del Barco Centenera about the conquest of the Río de la Plata.
La cautiva
La cautiva is a long narrative poem by the Argentine writer Esteban Echeverría, published in 1837 and considered the initial moment of Romanticism in the Río de la Plata.
La Chastelaine de Vergi
La Chastelaine de Vergi, also known as La Châtelaine de Vergy, is an anonymous Old French verse romance of the mid-13th century, about a secret love affair whose exposure destroys everyone.
La Fin de Satan
La Fin de Satan (The End of Satan) is an unfinished epic poem in alexandrine verse by Victor Hugo, written in exile from 1854 and published posthumously in 1886.