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Roman de Brut
The Roman de Brut is an Anglo-Norman verse chronicle by Wace, completed in 1155, presenting the legendary history of Britain and first mentioning the Round Table.
Roman de la Rose
Roman de la Rose is a 13th-century allegorical Old French dream-vision poem by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, recounting a lover's quest to win a rose.
Roman van Walewein
The Roman van Walewein, also known as Walewein ende het zwevende schaakbord, is a mid-13th-century Middle Dutch Arthurian romance by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, and the most important in Dutch.
Romance for Flugelhorn
Romance for Flugelhorn (Romance pro křídlovku) is a lyrical-epic poem by the Czech poet František Hrubín, written in 1961 and first published in book form in 1962.
Rostam (رستم)
Rostam (رستم, Rustam), the paramount legendary hero of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh (completed 1010 CE): rider of Rakhsh, hero of the Seven Labors, father who unknowingly slays Sohrab, and a figure killed through his brother's treachery, distinct from the Sasanian commander Rostam Farrokh-Hormozd.
Rukminiharana
Rukminiharana (रुक्मिणीहरणम्), "the abduction of Rukmini," is an Assamese narrative poem and one-act play on the love of Rukmini and Krishna, composed by the Vaishnavite saint-poet Srimanta Sankaradeva.
Ruslan and Ludmila
Ruslan and Ludmila (Руслан и Людмила) is a narrative poem in six cantos by Alexander Pushkin, completed in 1820, telling how the knight Ruslan rescues his bride from a sorcerer.
Rusticatio Mexicana
Rusticatio Mexicana is a Neo-Latin didactic poem by Guatemalan Jesuit Rafael Landívar, celebrating the landscapes and rural industries of New Spain, first published in 1781.
Sahadeva (सहदेव)
Sahadeva (सहदेव), youngest Pandava twin of Nakula in the Mahabharata, born to Madri through the Ashvins; wisest brother, astrologer bound by a curse of silence, conqueror of the south, killer of Shakuni, and name of three other epic figures.
Sahasa Bhima Vijaya
Gadayuddha (ಗದಾಯುದ್ಧ; "The Duel of the Maces"), also titled Sahasabhima-vijaya, is a Kannada court epic by the Jain poet Ranna telling of Bhima's final mace duel with Duryodhana.
Saif-ul-Maluk
Saif-ul-Maluk (سیف الملوک), also known as Safar-ul-Ishq, is a Punjabi Sufi masnavi by Mian Muhammad Bakhsh (1830–1907) recounting Prince Saif-ul-Maluk's quest for the fairy Badi-ul-Jamal, read as an allegory of the soul's pursuit of Divine Truth.
Salaman and Absal
Salaman and Absal (سلامان و ابسال) is an allegorical Persian masnavi that Abd al-Rahman Jami composed in 1480, telling of a prince's love for his wet-nurse Absal.
Samutthakhot Kham Chan
Samutthakhot Kham Chan (สมุทรโฆษคำฉันท์) is a Thai narrative poem telling the adventures of Prince Samutthakhot and Pintumat, begun under King Narai and completed by Paramanuchit Chinorot about 160 years later.
Samyukta (संयुक्ता)
Samyukta, also known as Sanyogita or Samyogita, is the princess of Kannauj whom the bardic epic Prithviraj Raso presents as King Jaichand's daughter, won by Prithviraj Chauhan at her swayamvara.
Sang Sinxay
Sang Sinxay (ສັງສິນໄຊ, also rendered Sinxay, Sinsai, or Sang Sinchai) is a classical Lao epic poem attributed to Pang Kham and composed between the mid-sixteenth and late seventeenth centuries.
Sanjung singok
Sanjung singok (산중신곡, "New Songs in the Mountains") is a cycle of 18 sijo poems written in 1642 by the Joseon poet Yun Seondo while living in retirement at Haenam, Korea.
Sasadavata
Sasadavata (සසඳාවත) is a classical Sinhala ornate narrative poem retelling the Sasa Jataka, the Bodhisattva's birth as a hare, and among the earliest works of Sinhala court poetry.
Satyaki
Satyaki (Sātyaki, सात्यकि), also Yuyudhana, a Vrishni Yadava warrior of the Mahabharata: Arjuna's pupil, Krishna's companion, Pandava commander, slayer of Bhurisravas on the war's 14th day, and later killed in the Yadava brawl at Prabhasa.
Satyavati (सत्यवती)
Satyavati (सत्यवती), also Matsyagandha and Yojanagandha, is the Mahabharata's fisherwoman-turned-queen of Hastinapur: wife of Shantanu, mother of Vyasa by Parashara, and matriarch whose niyoga arrangement produced the Kauravas' and Pandavas' fathers.
Saundarananda
Saundarananda (सौन्दरनन्दम्) is a Sanskrit court epic by the Buddhist poet Aśvaghoṣa, from the first or second century CE, telling how the Buddha converted his half-brother Nanda to monastic life.
Savitri and Satyavan
Savitri and Satyavan (सावित्री-सत्यवान्) is a Mahabharata Vana Parva episode, chapters 293–300, in which Savitri follows Yama and wins boons restoring her husband's life; basis of Vat Savitri and Sri Aurobindo's epic.
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol is an epic poem in English blank verse by Sri Aurobindo, retelling the Mahabharata legend of Savitri and Satyavan, composed from 1916 to 1950.
Sawerigading
Sawerigading is the main hero of the La Galigo epic, a pre-Islamic Bugis mythological cycle from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, estimated at about 6,000 folio pages.
Seerapuranam
Seerapuranam (சீறாப்புராணம்) is a Tamil Muslim epic poem on the life of the Prophet Muhammad, composed by Umaru Pulavar in 5,028 stanzas and considered the greatest Tamil Islamic epic.
Serat Bratayuda
Serat Bratayuda, also written Serat Baratayuda, is a Javanese verse adaptation of the Bharatayuddha, composed at the Surakarta court and attributed to Yasadipura I, a standard source for wayang plays.
Serat Centhini
Serat Centhini, also known as Suluk Tambangraras, is a Javanese encyclopedic narrative poem composed at the Surakarta court in the early 1810s, covering Javanese religion, music, food, and everyday life.
Serat Dewa Ruci
Serat Dewa Ruci is a Javanese wayang text in which Bima seeks the water of life and meets the deity Dewa Ruci, who teaches spiritual perfection.
Serat Rama
Serat Rama is a Javanese retelling of the Ramayana in metrical macapat verse by the poet Yasadipura I, used for wayang kulit and wayang wong performances.
Serdarot
Serdarot (Сердарот) is an epic poem written in Greek in 1860 by the Macedonian poet Grigor Stavrev Prličev, winning the Athens University competition and the title "second Homer".
Seytek
Seytek (Сейтек) is the third and concluding part of the Kyrgyz epic trilogy Manas, Semetey, and Seytek, following the hero Manas's grandson; the trilogy joined UNESCO's heritage list in 2013.