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La Galigo
La Galigo, also known as Sureq Galigo, is a Bugis epic cycle from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, of pre-Islamic oral roots from about the 14th century.
La Légende des siècles
La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Centuries) is a poetry collection by Victor Hugo retelling human history in verse, published in installments between 1859 and 1883.
La secchia rapita
La secchia rapita ("The stolen bucket") is a mock-heroic poem by Alessandro Tassoni, first published in Paris in 1621, about a war between Bologna and Modena over a stolen wooden bucket.
La Vie de saint Alexis
La Vie de saint Alexis, also called the Chanson de saint Alexis, is a mid-eleventh-century Old French hagiographic poem and one of the earliest monuments of French literature.
Lakshmana (लक्ष्मण)
Lakshmana (लक्ष्मण, Lakshman/Laxman) is Rama's younger half-brother in the Ramayana, son of Dasaratha and Sumitra, twin of Shatrughna, husband of Urmila, who follows Rama into exile, fights Indrajit, and is linked to the Lakshmana Rekha episode.
Lambro
Lambro is a narrative poem by Polish Romantic writer Juliusz Słowacki, written in Paris in 1832, about a Greek corsair sworn to hatred of the Turks.
Lament of the Lady of Qin
The Lament of the Lady of Qin (秦婦吟) is a long 883 narrative poem by Tang poet Wei Zhuang recounting the Huang Chao rebellion's destruction of Chang'an.
Lava (लव) (Ramayana)
Lava (लव), younger twin son of Rama and Sita in the Ramayana, raised with Kusha at Valmiki's ashram; the twins recite the 24,000-verse epic at Rama's ashvamedha, and traditions differ on Lava's later kingdom.
Lavanyavati
Lavanyavati (ଲାବଣ୍ୟବତୀ, also Labanyabati) is an Odia-language kavya by poet Upendra Bhanja, acclaimed as Kabi Samrat, narrating princess Lavanyavati's marriage to prince Chandrabhanu in ornate 18th-century Riti-period verse.
Layamon's Brut
Layamon's Brut is an early Middle English verse chronicle of more than 16,000 lines, composed around 1200 by Layamon, a priest at Areley Kings in Worcestershire.
Layla and Majnun (مجنون ليلى)
Layla and Majnun (مجنون ليلى), also Leyli o Majnun, is a 7th-century Arabian tale of Qays ibn al-Mulawwaḥ's unrequited love, immortalized by Nizami's 1188 Persian poem and retold across Islamic literatures.
Le Grand Testament
Le Grand Testament, or Le Testament, is a 2,023-verse narrative poem by François Villon dated 1461, a parody will whose burlesque bequests embed his lyric poems and mark his masterpiece.
Le Pèlerinage de vie humaine
Le Pèlerinage de vie humaine, "The Pilgrimage of Human Life," is a French allegorical dream-vision poem of 13,639 verses written by Guillaume de Deguileville in 1330–1331.
Le Remède de Fortune
Le Remède de Fortune, also spelled Remede de Fortune, is a narrative poem with interpolated songs, a dit, written in French by Guillaume de Machaut around 1340.
Le Roman de la Rose de Guillaume de Lorris
Le Roman de la Rose de Guillaume de Lorris is the first part of the Old French allegorical dream-vision poem Roman de la Rose, written around 1230.
Le Roman de Renart
Le Roman de Renart is a cycle of Old French comic animal poems about the trickster fox Renart, written by mostly anonymous authors from about 1170 to 1250.
Le Roman de Thèbes
Le Roman de Thèbes is an anonymous Old French verse romance of about 1150 adapting Statius's Thebaid, telling the war of Oedipus's sons for Thebes.
Le Roman de Tristan
Le Roman de Tristan, also cited as Tristran, is a fragmentary Old French poem of about 4,485 verses by the Norman poet Béroul, retelling the love of Tristan and Iseut.
Le Roman de Troie
The Roman de Troie, meaning Romance of Troy, is an Old French poem of over 30,000 lines by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, composed around 1165 and retelling the Trojan War.
Le Roman inachevé
Le Roman inachevé is an autobiographical long poem by the French writer Louis Aragon, published by Gallimard in 1956 and marking his return to lyric poetry.
Les Chants de Maldoror
Les Chants de Maldoror is an 1869 prose-poem in six chants by Isidore Ducasse, writing as the Comte de Lautréamont, whose evil protagonist Maldoror rebels against God and humankind.
Les Échecs amoureux
Les Échecs amoureux (Les Eschés amoureux, "The Amorous Chess Game") is a long Old French allegorical poem of about 30,000 verses, written around 1370 to 1380.
Les Quatre Fils Aymon
Les Quatre Fils Aymon, also known as Renaut de Montauban, is an Old French chanson de geste about Renaud and his brothers, persecuted by Charlemagne.
Les Tragiques
Les Tragiques is an epic poem in seven books by the French Protestant writer and soldier Agrippa d'Aubigné, first published anonymously in 1616 after roughly forty years of composition.
Libro de Alexandre
The Libro de Alexandre is an anonymous thirteenth-century Castilian epic poem narrating the fictionalized life and conquests of Alexander the Great, and the first work of the mester de clerecía school.
Lilit Phra Lo
Lilit Phra Lo (ลิลิตพระลอ) is a Thai narrative poem of the Ayutthaya period retelling the northern legend of Phra Lo, whose love for the princesses Phuean and Phaeng ends tragically.
Lilit Taleng Phai
Lilit Taleng Phai (ลิลิตตะเลงพ่าย) is a Thai epic panegyric poem by Prince Paramanuchit Chinorot of the Third Reign, celebrating King Naresuan's victory in the 1592 elephant duel.
Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman
Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman is an 1885 narrative poem in five books by American poet Ada Langworthy Collier, retelling the rabbinic legend of Adam's first wife sympathetically, linking her name to the word lullaby.
Lison ut-Tayr
Lison ut-Tayr (لسان الطير, The Language of the Birds) is a mystical narrative poem in Chagatai by Alisher Navoi, written in 1498–1499 as a response to Attar's Conference of the Birds.
List of characters in Ramayana
List of characters in Ramayana (रामायण): the cast of Valmiki's Sanskrit epic, from Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Hanuman, and Ravana to 194 named figures across seven Kandas, with version differences such as Ravana's portrayal.