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Nirvachanottara Ramayanamu
Nirvachanottara Ramayanamu (నిర్వచనోత్తర రామాయణము) is a 13th-century Telugu poetic adaptation of the Uttara Kanda, the final book of the Valmiki Ramayana, composed entirely in verse by Tikkana Somayaji.
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Cahier d'un retour au pays natal) is a 1939 long poem by Martinican writer Aimé Césaire, a founding text of Négritude.
Nrisimha Puranamu
Nrisimha Puranamu (నృసింహ పురాణం) is a 14th-century Telugu narrative poem by Errana telling the Narasimha avatar story, credited with initiating the Prabandha style in Telugu literature.
Nuorilang
Nuorilang (诺日朗) is a 1983 long poem by Chinese Misty poet Yang Lian, first published in Shanghai Literature and named for a Tibetan male god at Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan.
O Guesa Errante
O Guesa Errante, later retitled O Guesa, is an epic poem in thirteen cantos by the Brazilian poet Sousândrade, built on an indigenous Muísca solar legend from Colombia.
O Rio ou Relação da Viagem que Faz o Capibaribe de Sua Nascente à Cidade do Recife
O Rio ou Relação da Viagem que Faz o Capibaribe de Sua Nascente à Cidade do Recife is a 1954 narrative poem by João Cabral de Melo Neto narrated by the Capibaribe River.
O Uraguai
O Uraguai is a 1769 epic poem by José Basílio da Gama about the war between Portuguese and Spanish forces and the Guaraní of the Jesuit missions.
Odyssey (George Chapman translation)
The Odyssey (George Chapman translation) is George Chapman's first complete English translation of Homer's Odyssey, published between 1614 and 1616, and served as the standard version until Alexander Pope's translations.
Odyssey (Robert Fagles translation)
Odyssey (Robert Fagles translation): 1996 Viking/Penguin English verse translation of Homer's epic by Princeton classicist Robert Fagles, with Bernard Knox's introduction; loose five- to six-beat free verse, the standard US classroom text, later contrasted with Emily Wilson's 2017 version.
Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια)
The Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), attributed to Homer, is the ancient Greek epic of Odysseus' ten-year return from Troy, composed orally in dactylic hexameter, likely late eighth or seventh century BC.
Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια) (Richmond Lattimore translation)
Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), published 1965/1967, is a line-for-line English verse translation of Homer in a long Greek-conscious line, long a standard academic version praised by the NYT and TLS and still highly ranked among English Odysseys.
Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια) (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
Robert Fitzgerald's 1961 English verse translation of Homer's Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), a five-beat blank-verse rendering that won the Bollingen Prize, sold over two million copies, and remains a standard classroom translation alongside Lattimore, Fagles, and Wilson.
Oghuz Khagan
Oghuz Khagan (Oğuz Kağan), legendary ancestor of the Oghuz Turks and hero of the Oghuz Khagan Epic, transmitted in Oghuz-nama versions; oldest copy is the Uyghur-script Paris manuscript, with identity debated between Modu (Mete Khan) and the Scythians.
Oghuzname
Oghuzname (Oğuznâme, Oğuznamə) is the shared name for the epics and chronicles recounting the legendary history of the Oghuz Turks, centered on their mythical ancestor Oghuz Khan.
Oğuz Kağan Destanı
Oğuz Kağan Destanı, the Epic of Oghuz Khan, is an ancient Turkish epic about the legendary ancestor of the Oghuz Turks, from birth to conquests.
Okhaharan
Okhaharan (ઓખાહરણ) is a classical Gujarati akhyana, a sung narrative poem, composed by Premanand around 1667 across 93 cantos on the love of Okha, daughter of Banasura, and Aniruddha, grandson of Krishna.
Old Yiddish biblical epic
The Old Yiddish biblical epic was a genre of rhymed vernacular verse by Ashkenazi Jewish poets, retelling biblical stories in German epic form from the late 1300s to the early 1600s.
Old Yiddish epic
Old Yiddish epic is a body of narrative verse in the Ashkenazi Jewish vernacular, spanning roughly 1382 to 1730 in biblical and secular branches, including Dukus Horant and the Shmuel-bukh.
Omeros
Omeros is a book-length narrative poem by the Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott, published in 1990, that reworks Homeric epic themes in a Caribbean setting.
Operário em Construção
"Operário em Construção" is a narrative poem of more than 200 verses by the Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes, following a construction worker from alienated labor to class consciousness.
Orlando Furioso
Orlando Furioso (also Orlando furioso) is Ludovico Ariosto's chivalric epic in ottava rima, first printed at Ferrara in 1516 in 40 cantos and definitive in 46 cantos in 1532, continuing Boiardo's Orlando innamorato with the Frank-Saracen war, Orlando's madness, and the Este-celebrating love of Ruggiero and Bradamante.
Orlando Innamorato
Orlando Innamorato is an unfinished chivalric poem in ottava rima by the Italian poet Matteo Maria Boiardo, in which the paladins Orlando and Rinaldo fall in love with Angelica during Charlemagne's war against the Moors.
Ormulum
The Ormulum (Orrmulum), a 12th-century Early Middle English verse homily cycle on the Gospels by the Augustinian canon Orm, surviving in his autograph Bodleian MS Junius 1 with its own phonetic spelling system.
Os Lusíadas
Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads), Luís de Camões's 1572 Portuguese epic in 10 cantos and 1,102 ottava-rima stanzas, celebrates Vasco da Gama's sea voyage to India and Portugal's history, emulating Virgil's Aeneid.
Os Timbiras
Os Timbiras is an unfinished epic poem by the Brazilian Romantic poet Antônio Gonçalves Dias, published in Leipzig in 1857; only its first four cantos appeared in print.
Osman
Osman is a baroque epic in twenty cantos by the Dubrovnik writer Ivan Gundulić, covering the 1621 Battle of Khotyn and the 1622 downfall of Sultan Osman II.
Ossian
Ossian, also Oisín, is the purported third-century Gaelic bard behind James Macpherson's Poems of Ossian (1760–1773), a famous literary forgery that shaped European Romanticism despite the authenticity controversy.
Out of the Dust
Out of the Dust, also simply titled Out of the Dust (1997), is Karen Hesse's free-verse Newbery Medal-winning novel about 14-year-old Billie Jo surviving the Oklahoma Dust Bowl after a kerosene accident kills her mother.
Ozidi
Ozidi is an oral epic of the Ijo people of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, telling how a warrior's son, trained in magic, avenges his father's murder.
Padma Puran
Padma Puran (পদ্মাপুরাণ), also called Padmapurana or Manasamangal, is a medieval Bengali mangalkavya in praise of the folk snake goddess Manasa, composed between 1300 and 1800.