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The Tale of Amiran
The Tale of Amiran (Georgian: Amiraniani) is a pre-Christian Georgian folk epic, transmitted orally in many regional versions, about the hero Amirani, who is punished with eternal trials for defying the gods.
The Tale of Evpatiy Kolovrat
The Tale of Evpatiy Kolovrat (Повесть о Евпатии Коловрате) is an Old Russian episode about the Ryazan boyar Evpatiy Kolovrat fighting Batu's army after Ryazan fell in 1237.
The Tale of Hoa Tiên
The Tale of Hoa Tiên (Truyện Hoa Tiên) is an 18th-century Vietnamese verse novel by Nguyễn Huy Tự, written in Nôm script in lục bát meter.
The Tale of Kieu
The Tale of Kieu (Truyện Kiều, Đoạn Trường Tân Thanh) is a 3,254-line lục bát verse epic by Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Du (1765–1820), written in Nôm script and adapted from the Chinese novel Jin Yun Qiao; no definitive text exists, and it has been translated into over 20 languages.
The Tale of Lục Vân Tiên
The Tale of Lục Vân Tiên (Truyện Lục Vân Tiên) is a Vietnamese verse narrative in the lục bát meter, written by Nguyễn Đình Chiểu in the early 1850s.
The Tale of Nhị Độ Mai
The Tale of Nhị Độ Mai is an anonymous Vietnamese Nôm verse narrative in lục bát meter, adapted from a Chinese novel about the Mai and Trần families.
The Tale of Phạm Công – Cúc Hoa
The Tale of Phạm Công – Cúc Hoa (範公菊花) is a Vietnamese Nôm verse tale in lục bát meter, written roughly between the mid-18th and early 19th centuries.
The Tale of Phan Trần
The Tale of Phan Trần is an anonymous Vietnamese Nôm-script verse romance, probably 18th or early 19th century, telling of lovers betrothed before birth who are separated by war.
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights is an 1834 fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin retelling the Russian folk version of Snow White.
The Tale of the Heike (平家物語)
The Tale of the Heike (平家物語, Heike monogatari) is a 13th-century Japanese war tale on the Taira clan's rise and fall in the Genpei War, recited by biwa hōshi as heikyoku and best known in the 1371 Kakuichi text.
The Tragedy of Man
The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája) is an 1861 Hungarian dramatic poem by Imre Madách, in which Adam witnesses visions of human history guided by Lucifer.
The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus
The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus is an epic historical poem in English by Filipino poet Cirilo F. Bautista, comprising three book-length epics covering Philippine history from 1521 to 1986.
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Wreck of the Hesperus is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1840 narrative ballad of a skipper, his daughter, and a fatal 1839 New England storm at Norman's Woe, collected in Ballads and Other Poems and the source of an idiom for wreckage or untidiness.
Thebaid
The Thebaid (Thēbaïs) is a Latin epic in twelve books by the Roman poet Statius, first published in 91 or 92 CE, retelling the war of the Seven against Thebes.
Theban Cycle
The Theban Cycle is a modern grouping of four lost ancient Greek epic poems on Theban myths: the Oedipodea, Thebaid, Epigoni, and Alcmeonis, named in the 1800s.
Thembavani
Thembavani (தேம்பாவணி), meaning "a garland of unfading honey-sweet verses," is a Tamil Christian epic on Saint Joseph, composed in 1726 by the Italian Jesuit Veeramamunivar.
There Is a Country in the World
There Is a Country in the World (Hay un país en el mundo) is a long poem by Dominican poet Pedro Mir, first published in Havana in 1949.
Tiepolo's Hound
Tiepolo's Hound is a book-length narrative poem by Saint Lucian poet and painter Derek Walcott, published in 2000 and illustrated with reproductions of his own paintings.
Tilottama Sambhava
Tilottama Sambhava Kavya (তিলোত্তমাসম্ভব কাব্য, "The Birth of Tilottama") is an epic poem by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, published in 1860 and treated as the first Bengali poem in blank verse.
Tiruvilaiyadal Puranam
Tiruvilaiyadal Puranam (திருவிளையாடற் புராணம்) is a Tamil Shaiva temple chronicle by Paranjothi Munivar, composed in the 16th to 17th century, narrating the 64 sacred games Shiva performed at Madurai.
Toldi estéje
Toldi estéje ("Toldi's Evening") is a Hungarian narrative poem in six cantos by János Arany, the second part of his Toldi trilogy, published in 1854.
Torave Ramayana
Torave Ramayana (ತೊರವೆಯ ರಾಮಾಯಣ) is a sixteenth-century Kannada retelling of the Ramayana by Narahari of Torave, the epic's most widely circulated Kannada version and a principal text of Karnataka's gamaka recitation tradition.
Tragedyalar
Tragedyalar is a long poem by the Turkish poet Edip Cansever, first published in 1964. Using chorus, episodes, and lament, it portrays the despair and alienation of modern urban life.
Traktat poetycki
Traktat poetycki (A Treatise on Poetry) is a 1957 long poem by the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, reflecting on the history of Polish poetry in the twentieth century.
Translations of the Odyssey
Translations of the Odyssey: complete English renderings of Homer's Greek epic, from Chapman (1614) and Pope (1725) through Rieu, Fitzgerald, Lattimore (1965), Fagles (1996), Wilson (2017, first by a woman), and Mendelsohn (2025), differing in meter, fidelity, and diction.
Travels
Travels is a long autobiographical poem by the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, first published in Hebrew in 1968 and translated into English by Ruth Nevo.
Trekkerswee
Trekkerswee is a 1915 narrative poem in Afrikaans by the poet and theologian Totius, telling of a Transvaal trekker family whose rural life is broken by the gold-driven rise of Johannesburg.
Triumphs
The Triumphs (Triumphi) is an unfinished allegorical poem in terza rima by Petrarch, in which Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity triumph in turn.
Troilus and Criseyde
Troilus and Criseyde: Chaucer's five-book rhyme-royal Trojan War romance, adapted from Boccaccio's Il Filostrato via Benoit and Guido, Boethian in structure, continued by Henryson and adapted by Shakespeare.
Trojan Horse
Trojan Horse (Δούρηος Ἵππος, Wooden Horse of Troy): the stratagem by which Odysseus's Greeks hid warriors in a huge wooden horse built by Epeius, entered Troy, and sacked it; sources, art, and modern metaphor.