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Anticlaudianus
The Anticlaudianus is an allegorical Latin epic in ten books by Alan of Lille, written around 1182 in northern France, describing the creation of the perfect man.
Argonautica (Ἀργοναυτικά)
Argonautica (Ἀργοναυτικά), also The Voyage of Argo: Greek epic in four books, 5,835 hexameters, by Apollonius Rhodius, 3rd-century BC Alexandria, retelling Jason and Medea's quest for the golden fleece.
Argos (Ἄργος) (dog)
Argos (Ἄργος) is Odysseus's faithful dog in Homer's Odyssey, Book 17, the only being to recognize the disguised hero on his return to Ithaca before dying 'in the twentieth year'; his name means swift-footed, and the scene founded the archetype of the loyal dog.
Arjuna (अर्जुन)
Arjuna (अर्जुन), third Pandava in the Mahabharata, son of Kunti and Indra, supreme archer with the Gandiva bow and Pashupatastra, addressee of the Bhagavad Gita, also called Partha, Dhananjaya, Savyasachin.
Ashiq Qarib
Ashiq Qarib (Aşıq Qərib), also known as Ashiq Qarib and Shahsanam, is a famous Azerbaijani love dastan, an oral epic about the minstrel Qarib and his beloved Shahsanam.
Âsım
Âsım is the sixth book of Safahat, the collected poems of Turkish poet Mehmet Âkif Ersoy, published in 1924 and considered the peak of his art.
Asli and Kerem
Asli and Kerem (Əsli və Kərəm) is an Azerbaijani love dastan of the ashiq tradition about the doomed love between Kerem, son of the khan of Ganja, and Asli, a priest's daughter.
Asrar-e-Khudi
Asrar-e-Khudi (اسرار خودی, The Secrets of the Self) is a Persian philosophical poem by Muhammad Iqbal, first published at Lahore in 1915, setting out his doctrine of khudi, or selfhood, in verse.
Assamese Mahabharata
The Assamese Mahabharata, also known as the Ashtadasa Mahabharata, is a 16th-century Assamese verse rendering of the Sanskrit epic composed chiefly by Rama Saraswati, court poet of the Koch kingdom.
Assamese Ramayana
Madhava Kandali's Ramayana, called the Saptakanda Ramayana, is a fourteenth-century Assamese verse rendering of Valmiki's Ramayana by poet Madhava Kandali, the first Ramayana in any North East Indian language.
Astolfo
Astolfo (also Astolpho), paladin of Charlemagne and cousin of Orlando, is the English knight of Pulci's Morgante, Boiardo's Orlando innamorato, and Ariosto's Orlando furioso, where he rides the hippogriff and retrieves Orlando's wits from the Moon.
Astronomica
The Astronomica is a Latin didactic poem in five books by Manilius, teaching astrology; the earliest surviving explicitly astrological work, dated to the early first century CE.
At the Top of My Voice
"At the Top of My Voice" (Vo ves' golos) is Vladimir Mayakovsky's last long poem, published in 1930 as a defense of his work addressed to future generations.
Atmajayi
Atmajayi (आत्मजयी) is a 1965 Hindi khandakavya, an extended narrative poem, by the leading Nayi Kavita poet Kunwar Narayan, retelling the Nachiketa episode of the Katha Upanishad.
Atta Troll
Atta Troll is a satirical verse epic by Heinrich Heine about a dancing bear whose escape becomes a vehicle for political and literary satire, begun in 1841.
Aurora Leigh
Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 1856 nine-book blank verse novel-poem (also called a verse novel), traces a woman poet's growth from Florence to London and became a feminist-recovered classic.
Autobiography of Red
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, Anne Carson's 1998 Knopf book, reimagines the Stesichoros Geryon myth as a queer coming-of-age love story; sequel Red Doc>.
Awater
Awater is a 273-line narrative poem by the Dutch poet Martinus Nijhoff, published in 1934 in Nieuwe gedichten and often called the Dutch answer to Eliot's The Waste Land.
Awit ni Labaw Donggon
Awit ni Labaw Donggon ("The Song of Labaw Donggon") is a Philippine epic cycle of the Sulod people's Hinilawod chant tradition, published by F. Landa Jocano in 1965.
Ayadgar-i Zareran
Ayadgar-i Zareran is a short Middle Persian text recounting King Wištāsp's defense of the Zoroastrian faith against Arǰāsp, the only surviving specimen of ancient Iranian epic poetry.
Az apostol
Az apostol ("The Apostle") is a narrative poem by the Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi, written in 1848, about Szilveszter, a revolutionary who dies misunderstood and alone.
Babad Giyanti
Babad Giyanti, also known as Babad Mangkubumen, is a Javanese historical chronicle in tembang macapat verse form covering Java's political upheavals from 1741 to 1757.
Babruvahana (बभ्रुवाहन)
Babruvahana (बभ्रुवाहन), also Babhruvahana, is the Mahabharata son of Arjuna and the Manipur princess Chitrangada; in the Ashvamedha Parva he fights and defeats his father when the sacrificial horse reaches Manipur.
Baidehisha Vilasa
Baidehisha Vilasa (ବୈଦେହୀଶ ବିଳାସ) is a seventeenth-century Odia kavya by Upendra Bhanja, a landmark of Odia literature that retells the Ramayana with erotic sentiment at its center.
Bakhtrioni
Bakhtrioni (ბახტრიონი) is an 1892 epic poem by the Georgian poet Vazha-Pshavela recounting the 1659 uprising of the people of Kakheti against Persian rule, in which Georgian highlanders stormed the Bakhtrioni fortress.
Bal w operze
Bal w operze (A Ball at the Opera) is a satirical verse narrative by Polish poet Julian Tuwim, caricaturing the Sanacja regime elite, written in 1936.
Baldus
Baldus is a mock-epic poem in macaronic Latin hexameters by the Italian poet Teofilo Folengo, writing as Merlin Cocai, regarded as the masterpiece of the macaronic genre.
Bandhanasthanaya Aniruddhan
Bandhanasthanaya Aniruddhan (ബന്ധനസ്ഥനായ അനിരുദ്ധൻ, "Aniruddhan in Prison") is a 1914 Malayalam khandakavya by Vallathol Narayana Menon that retells the Puranic love story of Usha and Aniruddha.
Baptism at the Savica
Baptism at the Savica (Krst pri Savica) is an 1836 narrative poem by the Slovene poet France Prešeren, generally treated as the national epic of Slovene literature.
Barbarika (बर्बरीक)
Barbarika (बर्बरीक), also Barbarīk, is a Mahabharata-tradition warrior, grandson of Bhima and son of Ghatotkacha, worshipped as Khatu Shyam Ji at Khatu, Rajasthan; known for his three arrows, his vow to aid the losing side, and his sheesh daan (gift of head) to Krishna.