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The Fate of Georgia
The Fate of Georgia (Georgian: Bedi Kartlisa) is an 1839 romantic poem by Nikoloz Baratashvili, dramatizing King Erekle II's debate over the 1783 treaty with Russia.
The Forest Song
The Forest Song (Лісова пісня) is a 1911 dramatic poem in verse by the Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka, her most acclaimed play, rooted in Volhynian forest folklore.
The Gamekeeper's Wife
The Gamekeeper's Wife (Hájnikova žena) is a lyrical-epic narrative poem by the Slovak poet Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, written from 1883 to 1886 and regarded as the culminating work of his epic writing.
The Gypsies
The Gypsies (Цыганы) is a narrative poem by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1824 during his southern exile and published as a book in 1827, the last of his "Southern poems".
The Hammer of the Village
The Hammer of the Village (A helység kalapácsa) is a comic epic poem in four cantos by the Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi, published in 1844 as his first printed book.
The Heights of Macchu Picchu
The Heights of Macchu Picchu (Alturas de Macchu Picchu) is a 1945 twelve-part poem by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, published in 1950 in his epic Canto general.
The Hind and the Panther
The Hind and the Panther is a 1687 allegorical poem in three parts by John Dryden, in which a white hind representing Catholicism debates a panther for the Church of England.
The History of the Conquest of Syria
The History of the Conquest of Syria (Futuh al-Sham, فتوح الشام) is an Arabic epic-history of the Muslim conquest of Syria, traditionally attributed to al-Waqidi.
The Kingis Quair
The Kingis Quair, meaning "the King's Book," is a 1,379-line dream-vision poem in a Scottish dialect of Middle English, attributed to James I of Scotland.
The Knight in the Panther's Skin
The Knight in the Panther's Skin (Georgian: Vepkhistqaosani) is a Georgian epic poem by Shota Rustaveli, written under Queen Tamar around 1189–1207 and regarded as Georgia's national epic.
The Lay of Igor's Campaign
The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Slovo o polku Ihorevi) is a late 12th-century epic poem about Prince Igor Sviatoslavich's failed 1185 campaign against the Cumans.
The Maximus Poems
The Maximus Poems is a sequence of more than 300 linked poems by the American poet Charles Olson, centered on the speaker Maximus and Gloucester, Massachusetts.
The Midnight Court
The Midnight Court (Cúirt an Mheán Oíche) is a satiric, bawdy narrative poem of 1,026 lines in Irish, composed around 1780 by the schoolmaster Brian Merriman of County Clare.
The Mountain Wreath
The Mountain Wreath (Gorski vijenac) is an epic poem in dramatic form written by Petar II Petrović Njegoš in 1846 and published in 1847, the most famous work of Montenegrin literature.
The New Land
The New Land (Belarusian: Новая зямля, Novaja zjamla) is a narrative poem by Yakub Kolas, published in Minsk in 1923, regarded as a classic of Belarusian literature.
The Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation)
Emily Wilson's 2017 W. W. Norton translation of Homer's Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), the first published English version by a woman, in iambic pentameter with the same line count, rendering polytropos as 'complicated'.
The Ozidi Saga
The Ozidi Saga is an oral epic of the Ijaw people of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, performed over seven days, telling how the hero Ozidi avenges his murdered father.
The Processions
The Processions (Al-Mawākib, المواكب) is a long philosophical poem in classical Arabic by Kahlil Gibran, published at his own expense in New York in 1919.
The Prodigal
The Prodigal is a book-length narrative poem by the St. Lucian poet and 1992 Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, published in 2004, meditating on exile, travel, fame, death, and homecoming.
The Rape of Lucrece
Shakespeare's narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece (also titled Lucrece, published 1594 in rhyme royal) retells Lucretia's rape by Tarquin and suicide, which founded the Roman Republic.
The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock: Alexander Pope's mock-epic poem, first published in two cantos in 1712 and expanded to five in 1714, satirizing Lord Petre's snipping of a lock of Arabella Fermor's hair.
The Ray of the Microcosm
The Ray of the Microcosm (Luča mikrokozma) is an 1845 mystical epic poem in six cantos by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, prince-bishop of Montenegro, written during Lent.
The Ring and the Book
The Ring and the Book is a 22,021-line narrative poem by Robert Browning, published 1868 to 1869, retelling a 1698 Roman murder trial in dramatic monologues.
The Siege of Sziget
The Siege of Sziget (Hungarian: Szigeti veszedelem) is a Hungarian Baroque epic by Miklós Zrínyi, recounting the 1566 Ottoman siege of Szigetvár; it was printed in 1651.
The Song of Hiawatha
The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow's 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter, retells Ojibwe legends collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as the life of Hiawatha and Minnehaha; its hero conflates the Iroquois leader Hiawatha with Nanabozho.
The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland (La Chanson de Roland) is a late eleventh-century Old French epic poem about Roland's betrayal and death at Roncevaux and Charlemagne's vengeance.
The Song of the Cid
The Song of the Cid (Cantar de mio Cid) is an anonymous medieval Castilian epic poem about the exile and restored honor of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid.
The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov
A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich, the Young Oprichnik, and the Valiant Merchant Kalashnikov is a narrative poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1837, often printed as Song about the Merchant Kalashnikov.
The Song of the Murdered Jewish People
The Song of the Murdered Jewish People is an epic poem of about 900 verses by Yitzhak Katzenelson, written in Yiddish at the Vittel internment camp in 1943 and 1944.
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a 1915 verse novel by C. J. Dennis about Bill, a Melbourne larrikin who reforms for love of Doreen.