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Mevlid
Mevlid, from Arabic mawlid meaning birth, is a Turkish and Ottoman genre of narrative poem on the Prophet Muhammad's birth, with Süleyman Çelebi's 1409 Vesîletü'n-necât as its founding text, also recited as a ceremony.
Mohanatarangini
Mohanatarangini (ಮೋಹನತರಂಗಿಣಿ) is a Kannada narrative poem in the Sangatya meter by the sixteenth-century saint-poet Kanakadasa, retelling the love story of Usha and Aniruddha, the grandson of Krishna.
Monachomachia
Monachomachia, or the War of the Monks, is a mock-heroic poem by Ignacy Krasicki satirizing a war between Dominicans and Carmelites, published anonymously in 1778.
Mongolian epic
A Mongolian epic, known in Mongolian as tuuli (тууль), is an orally composed heroic narrative poem, the central genre of Mongolian literature, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009.
Mor ho!
Mor ho! is an 1864 heroic epic poem by the Slovak Romantic poet Samo Chalupka, depicting Slavs who fight a Roman emperor to the death rather than submit.
Morgante
Morgante, also known as Il Morgante or Morgante maggiore, is a burlesque epic poem in ottava rima by Luigi Pulci, printed in 1478 and expanded in 1483.
Moscow-Petushki
Moscow-Petushki, also published as Moscow to the End of the Line, is a prose poem by Venedikt Erofeev narrating a drunkard's train journey from Moscow to Petushki.
Mountains and Rivers Without End
Mountains and Rivers Without End is a book-length poem by Gary Snyder, published in 1996 after forty years of work, modeled on a Chinese landscape handscroll.
Mrigavati
Mrigavati, also romanized Mirigavati ("The Magic Doe"), is an Awadhi Sufi romance by the poet Qutban, composed around 1503 and counted among the four major Hindavi Sufi romances of North India.
Mtsyri
Mtsyri (Мцыри) is a romantic narrative poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839, telling of a Georgian boy captured by Russian forces who escapes his monastery.
Muna Madan
Muna Madan (मुनामदन) is a short epic poem in Nepali by Laxmi Prasad Devkota, first published in 1936 and regarded as Nepali literature's most famous work.
Mush wa Gurba
Mush wa Gurba (موش و گربه, Qiṣṣah-i Mūsh va Gurbah), also known as Mūshnāmah, is a Persian mock-epic satire about a tyrannical cat tormenting virtuous mice.
Musibat-nama
Musibat-nama (مصیبتنامه, "Book of Affliction") is a Persian mystical mathnawi by the Sufi poet Farid al-Din Attar of Nishapur, in which a wayfarer seeks relief through forty encounters, and it is Attar's longest poem.
Nadir Shah Di Var
Nadir Shah Di Var (Punjabi: ਨਾਦਰਸ਼ਾਹ ਦੀ ਵਾਰ) is an 18th-century Punjabi var, a heroic epic ode composed by Najabat on Nadir Shah's invasion of 1739.
Nahush
Nahush (नहुष) is a 1940 Hindi narrative poem by Maithili Sharan Gupt, retelling the Mahabharata story of a man who becomes king of heaven and falls.
Naishadhacharita
Naishadhacharita (नैषधीयचरितम्, Naiṣadhīyacarita), also called Naishadhakavya, is a 12th-century Sanskrit court epic by Śrīharṣa, one of the five great mahākāvya poems, retelling the story of Nala and Damayantī.
Naishadhiyacharita
Naishadhiyacharita, also called Naishadha-charita, is a 12th-century Sanskrit epic poem by Śrīharṣa that retells the story of Nala and Damayantī from the Mahābhārata in 22 cantos.
Nakshi Kanthar Math
Nakshi Kanthar Math (নকশী কাঁথার মাঠ, "The Field of the Embroidered Quilt") is a 1929 Bengali narrative poem by Jasimuddin about the tragic love of villagers Rupai and Saju.
Nakula (नकुल)
Nakula (नकुल), one of the five Pandava twins with Sahadeva in the Mahabharata, son of Madri and the Asvins; a horseman famed for beauty and swordsmanship, serving as Granthika in Virata's court.
Nalachampu
Nalachampu (नलचम्पू), also known as Damayantīkathā or Damayantīcampū, is a Sanskrit champu mixing prose and verse, written by Trivikrama Bhaṭṭa in the early tenth century.
Nalacharitam
Nalacharitam (നളചരിതം) is a four-part Kathakali play text written in the late 17th or early 18th century by Unnayi Warrier, dramatizing the Nala-Damayanti story from the Mahabharata.
Nalakhyan
Nalakhyan (નળાખ્યાન) is the title of several medieval Gujarati narrative poems telling the Mahabharata story of King Nala and Damayanti, the most famous composed by Premanand in 1686.
Narrative poetry
Narrative poetry, also called verse narrative, is poetry that tells a story, one of the oldest poetic forms. Its main subtypes are epic and ballad, with courtly romance a medieval development.
Nausicaa
Nausicaa (Ναυσικάα), Phaeacian princess of Scheria in Odyssey Book 6, daughter of Alcinous and Arete, finds the shipwrecked Odysseus; later contested by Butler's authoress theory and echoed in Joyce's Ulysses.
Nepali Ramayana tradition
The Nepali Ramayana tradition centers on the Bhanubhaktiya Ramayana, Bhanubhakta Acharya's 1853 Nepali verse rendering of the Sanskrit Adhyatma Ramayana, regarded as Nepal's Ramcharitmanas and the first epic of Nepali poetry.
Nesteren
Nesteren is a verse drama by the Ottoman playwright Abdülhak Hâmid, written and printed in Paris in 1877 and modeled in subject on Corneille's Le Cid.
Ngo Pa
Ngo Pa (เงาะป่า, "Forest Savage") is a 1905 Thai verse play by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), a tragic love triangle among forest dwellers considered a Thai literary masterpiece.
Ngư Tiều y thuật vấn đáp
Ngư Tiều y thuật vấn đáp is a 3,644-line Vietnamese narrative poem by poet and physician Nguyễn Đình Chiểu that teaches traditional Eastern medicine in verse.
Nibelungenklage
The Nibelungenklage, known in Middle High German as diu klage ("the lament"), is a Middle High German verse epilogue to the Nibelungenlied, written around 1200–1205.
Nibelungenlied
Nibelungenlied (Der Nibelunge Nôt), Middle High German heroic epic written down around 1200, likely at Passau; 39 aventiuren telling Siegfried's murder and Kriemhild's revenge; survives in 37 manuscripts, A, B, C; UNESCO Memory of the World 2009.