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Padmapurana
Padmapurana (পদ্মাপুরাণ), also called Padma Purana or Manasamangal, is a Bengali mangalkavya composed by Vijay Gupta around 1494, viewed as the oldest extant of its genre.
Padmavat
Padmavat (पद्मावत), also Padumavati, is a 1540 Awadhi Sufi epic by Malik Muhammad Jayasi telling of Ratansen of Chittor and princess Padmavati of Singhal as an allegory of the soul's union with God.
Padmavati
Padmavati (পদ্মাবতী) is a Bengali romantic epic written by poet Syed Alaol in 1648 at the Arakan court, adapting Jayasi's 1540 Awadhi poem Padmavat and regarded as Alaol's finest work.
Paladin
Paladin: originally one of Charlemagne's twelve legendary knights (Twelve Peers) in the Song of Roland; from Latin palatinus, palace official; now a holy-warrior fantasy class in D&D and World of Warcraft.
Palnati Viracharitra
Palnati Viracharitra (పల్నాటి వీర చరిత్ర), also called Palnati Bharatam, is a Telugu narrative poem by the 15th-century poet Srinatha about a war among kin in Palnadu, Andhra Pradesh.
Pan Tadeusz
Pan Tadeusz is an epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz, first published in Paris in 1834 and regarded as the Polish national epic, set in Lithuania around 1811 and 1812.
Panchali Sabatham
Panchali Sabatham (பாஞ்சாலி சபதம், "Panchali's Vow") is a 1912 Tamil epic poem by Subramania Bharati that retells the Mahabharata dice game and disrobing as an allegory of India under British rule.
Panchvati
Panchvati (पंचवटी) is a 1925 Hindi khanda kavya by Maithili Sharan Gupt, one of his best-known works, retelling the Ramayana's Shurpanaka episode in polished Khari Boli verse.
Pandava
Pandavas (पाण्डव), the five Mahabharata brothers of Pandu, Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, Sahadeva, born to Kunti and Madri via gods, Karna the hidden sixth, war with Kauravas, Kurukshetra victory.
Pandu
Pandu (Pāṇḍu, "pale") is the Hastinapura king in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata, son of Vyasa and Ambalika, cursed by the sage Kindama to die on embracing a wife, and earthly father of the five Pandavas, born to gods via Kunti and Madri.
Panduranga Mahatyamu
Panduranga Mahatyamu (పాండురంగ మాహాత్మ్యము) is a 16th-century Telugu kavya by Tenali Ramakrishna, one of the five great Telugu mahakavyas, praising the Pandharpur shrine of Panduranga.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost, John Milton's blank-verse epic (1667 in ten books; 1674 in twelve), retells Satan's rebellion and the Fall of man; dictated by the blind Milton, it became the defining Christian epic in English.
Paradise Regained
Paradise Regained, John Milton's 1671 blank-verse brief epic in four books, retells Christ's temptation in the wilderness, reversing Paradise Lost with a plainer style, georgic heroism, and a divided critical reception.
Paradiso (Dante)
Paradiso, third and final cantica of Dante's Divina Commedia: 33 cantos in which Beatrice guides the poet through nine celestial spheres to the Empyrean and the final vision of the Trinity in Canto 33.
Parijatapaharanam
Parijatapaharanam, a sixteenth-century Telugu court poem by Nandi Timmana, recounts Krishna's theft of the celestial pārijāta tree to please Satyabhama, composed at Krishnadevaraya's Vijayanagara court.
Parijatapaharanamu
Parijatapaharanamu (Telugu: పారిజాతాపహరణము) is a sixteenth-century Telugu epic poem by the court poet Nandi Timmana, retelling Krishna's theft of the wish-granting pārijāta tree from Indra and counted among the most celebrated Telugu prabandhas.
Parzival
Parzival is Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German verse romance of nearly 25,000 verses, composed 1200–1210, expanding Chrétien's unfinished Perceval; hero heals Grail king Anfortas, basis of Wagner's Parsifal.
Pasyon
The Pasyon (Pasyóng Mahál) is a Philippine epic verse narrative of the life of Jesus Christ, chanted continuously in the Lenten devotion called the pabasa.
Paterson (poem)
Paterson is William Carlos Williams's five-book modernist long poem (1946-1958) about Paterson, New Jersey, where a man mirrors the city; it follows the Passaic River and mixes verse, prose, and letters.
Peasant Children
Peasant Children (Крестьянские дети) is a small lyric-epic narrative poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written in 1861, that portrays village childhood through a hunter-poet's chance meeting with peasant children.
Penelope
Penelope (Πηνελόπη), wife of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey, mother of Telemachus; famed for the shroud-unraveling trick, the marriage-bed test, and twenty years of fidelity amid 100-plus suitors.
Perceval, the Story of the Grail
Perceval, the Story of the Grail (Perceval ou le Conte du Graal) is an unfinished Old French verse romance by Chrétien de Troyes and the earliest known story of the Holy Grail.
Periandros van Korinthe
Periandros van Korinthe (Periandros of Corinth) is a 1954 Afrikaans verse drama by D. J. Opperman about the Corinthian tyrant Periander, winner of the 1956 Hertzog Prize for Drama.
Persian epic poetry
Persian epic poetry is a tradition of long, mostly metrical narratives in heroic language about the valor of warriors and kings, with Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, completed around 1010, as its standard example.
Perunkathai
Perunkathai (பெருங்கதை), also called Konguvel Maakkadhai or Udhayanan Kadhai, is a Tamil Jain epic by Konguvelir that retells the life of King Udayana of Kosambi from the Sanskrit Brihatkatha.
Pharsalia
The Pharsalia, also known as the Bellum Civile (Civil War), is a ten-book Latin epic by the Roman poet Lucan recounting the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey.
Phra Lak Phra Lam
Phra Lak Phra Lam (ພຣະລັກ ພຣະລາມ) is the Lao version of the Ramayana, named after the brothers Phra Lam and Phra Lak and treated in Laos as a jataka, a past life of the Buddha.
Piedra de sol
Piedra de sol ("Sunstone") is a 1957 poem by Octavio Paz, named for the Aztec calendar stone and built of 584 lines matching the synodic cycle of Venus.
Poema
Poema (Russian: поэма) is a Russian literary genre, roughly "a long poem with a story," combining narrative plot with a strong lyrical voice; Pushkin and Mayakovsky wrote notable examples.
Poema Sujo
Poema Sujo ("Dirty Poem") is a long narrative poem by Ferreira Gullar, written in exile in Buenos Aires in 1975 and published in 1976 to wide acclaim.