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Tahir and Zuhra
Tahir and Zuhra (Tahir və Zöhrə) is a tragic love dastan of the Turkic peoples, telling of betrothed lovers separated by the girl's father, the padishah.
Táin Bó Cúailnge
Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley, The Táin): early Irish prose epic of the Ulster Cycle, in Lebor na hUidre (c. 1100) and Book of Leinster recensions, telling Medb's raid for Donn Cúailnge and Cú Chulainn's single combats.
Tanci
Tanci (弹词, "plucking rhymes") is a Chinese chantefable genre in which verse is sung to plucked lute accompaniment, existing as oral storytelling and as fiction written chiefly for reading.
Tapaswini
Tapaswini (Odia: ତପସ୍ୱିନୀ) is a 1912 epic narrative poem in Odia by Gangadhar Meher, retelling Sita's life from her banishment to her sons' reunion with Rama.
Telemachus (Τηλέμαχος)
Telemachus (Τηλέμαχος), son of Odysseus and Penelope in Homer's Odyssey; hero of the Telemachy (Books 1–4), journeys to Pylos and Sparta, helps kill the suitors, later marries Circe in the Telegony.
Teseida
The Teseida (Teseida delle nozze d'Emilia) is an epic poem by Giovanni Boccaccio, composed around 1340 in ottava rima and generally regarded as the first epic of Italian literature.
Thao Hung Thao Cheuang
Thao Hung Thao Cheuang (ທ້າວຮຸ່ງ ທ້າວເຈືອງ), also known as Thao Hung or Cheuang, is a Lao epic poem about a partly historical prince of the Mekong basin.
The Alliterative Morte Arthure
The Alliterative Morte Arthure is an anonymous Middle English poem of 4,346 alliterative lines, composed around 1400, telling of Arthur's war against Rome and his fall through Mordred's treachery.
The Angel in the House
The Angel in the House is a narrative poem by Coventry Patmore celebrating love and marriage; its title became shorthand for the Victorian ideal of the self-sacrificing wife.
The Book of Dede Korkut
The Book of Dede Korkut is a collection of epic stories of the Oghuz Turks, their oldest known epic cycle, told in Oghuz Turkish verse and prose.
The Book of Good Love
The Book of Good Love (Libro de buen amor) is a Castilian narrative poem of the mester de clerecía, attributed to Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, and dated 1330–1343.
The Boys Who Stole the Funeral
The Boys Who Stole the Funeral is a 1980 verse novel by Australian poet Les Murray, told as a sequence of 140 sonnets about two young men.
The Bronze Horseman
The Bronze Horseman (Медный всадник) is an 1833 narrative poem by Alexander Pushkin about a poor clerk pursued by the statue of Peter the Great after a flood.
The Building of Skadar
The Building of Skadar (Zidanje Skadra) is a Serbian epic folk song about the walled-up sacrifice of a young wife needed for the fortress of Skadar to stand.
The Capture of Tmogvi
The Capture of Tmogvi (Թմկաբերդի առումը) is a 1902 narrative poem by the Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan, based on a folk legend and later the basis of Spendiaryan's opera Almast.
The Changing Light at Sandover
The Changing Light at Sandover is a 560-page epic poem by James Merrill, published in 1982, composed from three decades of Ouija-board séances with David Jackson.
The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds (Manṭiq al-Ṭayr, منطق الطیر), also called Speech of the Birds, is a 12th-century Persian Sufi allegorical masnavi of about 4,500 couplets by Attar of Nishapur in which birds cross seven valleys to reach the Simorgh and find thirty birds, si morgh, reflected there.
The Courtship of Miles Standish
The Courtship of Miles Standish is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1858 narrative poem, published by Ticknor and Fields, retelling the Alden family legend in which Priscilla Mullins tells John Alden, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"
The Daughter of Sláva
The Daughter of Sláva (Slávy dcera) is a lyrical-epic poem by the Slovak poet Ján Kollár, first published in 1824 and expanded into 645 sonnets by 1852.
The Dead of the Desert
The Dead of the Desert (Metei Midbar) is an epic Hebrew poem by Hayim Nahman Bialik, written in 1902 in Odessa about the Israelites who died in the wilderness.
The Death of Smail-aga Čengić
The Death of Smail-aga Čengić (Smrt Smail-age Čengića) is an 1846 epic poem by Ivan Mažuranić, telling of the Ottoman commander Smail-aga Čengić's death at Montenegrin hands.
The Descent of Alette
The Descent of Alette is a 1992 epic poem by Alice Notley, following a woman through a subway underworld on a quest to destroy the tyrant.
The Duma about Samiilo Kishka
The Duma about Samiilo Kishka (Дума про Самійла Кішку) is a Ukrainian folk epic, one of the largest dumy at 390 lines, about hetman Samiilo Kishka's escape from Turkish galley slavery.
The Dunciad
The Dunciad is a mock-epic satirical poem by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in three books in 1728 and expanded into its final four-book form in 1743.
The Eve of St. Agnes
"The Eve of St. Agnes" is a narrative poem in 42 Spenserian stanzas by John Keats, written in January and February 1819 and published in his final 1820 volume.
The Excursion
The Excursion is a long philosophical poem by William Wordsworth, published in London in 1814 and the only part he published of his planned three-part work The Recluse.
The Faerie Queene
The Faerie Queene is Edmund Spenser's incomplete allegorical epic: six books published 1590 and 1596, a planned twelve, written in the nine-line Spenserian stanza for Gloriana, an Elizabeth I figure.
The Fall of Princes
The Fall of Princes is a long Middle English poem by John Lydgate, written in the 1430s and telling of nearly 500 figures who fell from power.
The Fall of the Serbian Empire
The Fall of the Serbian Empire (Пропаст царства Српскога) is a Serbian epic folk song in which Prince Lazar chooses a heavenly kingdom before the 1389 Battle of Kosovo.
The False Tsar Stephen the Little
The False Tsar Stephen the Little is an 1851 verse drama by Petar II Petrović Njegoš about an impostor who ruled Montenegro posing as Russian tsar Peter III.