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Troy Book
Troy Book is a Middle English narrative poem by the monk John Lydgate, begun in 1412 at the request of the future Henry V and completed in 1420.
Truyện thơ Nôm
Truyện thơ Nôm is a Vietnamese genre of long narrative poems written in chữ Nôm script, mostly in lục bát verse, flourishing from the 17th to the late 19th century.
Tuhfat al-Iraqayn
Tuhfat al-Iraqayn (تحفة العراقین), also known as Khatm al-Ghara'ib, is a 12th-century Persian masnavi by Khaqani Shirvani describing his pilgrimage journey toward Mecca through the two Iraqs.
Tum Teav
Tum Teav (ទុំទាវ) is a Cambodian tragic love story about the novice monk Tum and the girl Teav, a cornerstone of the Cambodian literary canon.
Ullalim
The ullalim is a chanted oral tradition of the Kalinga people of Kalinga province in the Philippines, best known as epic songs of heroes like Banna.
Ulupi
Ulupi (Ulūpī, उलूपी) is a Naga princess, daughter of king Kauravya, in the Mahabharata; she marries Arjuna during his exile, bears Iravan, and revives Arjuna with a jewel after Babhruvahana strikes him down, freeing him from the Vasus' curse.
Umakeralam
Umakeralam (ഉമാകേരളം) is a Malayalam mahakavya by Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer, first published in 1913, telling the story of Umayamma Rani, the 17th-century regent queen of Venad.
Upakhyana
Upakhyana (उपाख्यान, upākhyāna) is a Sanskrit term for a subordinate tale or episode embedded in a longer narrative, especially the Mahabharata, whose 67 cataloged upakhyanas clarify points of dharma.
Upapandavas (उपपाण्डव)
Upapandavas (उपपाण्डव), the five sons of Draupadi in the Mahabharata: Prativindhya, Sutasoma, Shrutakarma, Shatanika, Shrutasena, one by each Pandava; all killed by Ashwatthama in the Sauptika Parva night raid.
Urmila (ऊर्मिला)
Urmila (ऊर्मिला) is a princess of Mithila in the Ramayana, wife of Lakshmana and younger sister of Sita. Valmiki names her once; her famous fourteen-year sleep comes from Telugu women's songs, and modern retellings like Saket and Sita's Sister center her.
Utendi wa Tambuka
Utendi wa Tambuka, also called the Book of Heraclius or Herekali, is a Swahili religious epic dated 1728–1729, attributed to Mwengo and recounting the Battle of Tabuk.
Utenzi wa Ayubu
Utenzi wa Ayubu, also written Utendi wa Ayubu, is an anonymous classical Swahili narrative poem retelling the prophet Job's temptation and restoration, probably composed in 1723 or earlier.
Utenzi wa Shufaka
Utenzi wa Shufaka ("The Poem of Compassion") is a classical Swahili epic in which the angels Gabriel and Michael descend in human form to test whether compassion remains among people.
Valayapathi
Valayapathi (வளையாபதி) is one of the Five Great Epics of Tamil literature, a Jain narrative poem, probably from the 9th century, of which only fragments survive.
Vamiq o Azra
Vamiq o Azra (وامق و عذرا) is a Persian verse romance telling of the love of Prince Vamiq and Azra; Unsuri Balkhi first versified it in the 11th century, and only scattered verses survive.
Vasily Tyorkin
Vasily Tyorkin (Василий Тёркин) is the soldier-hero of Alexander Tvardovsky's 1942 verse work Vasily Tyorkin: A Book about a Fighter, the best-known literary work on the Great Patriotic War.
Vasucharitra
Vasucharitra (వసుచరిత్ర, also written Vasucaritramu) is a sixteenth-century Telugu prabandha, a classical court poem composed by Bhattumurti, better known as Ramaraja Bhushana, and praised as a perfect Prabandha of its age.
Vents
Vents is a long French poem by Saint-John Perse, pen name of Alexis Léger, written in Maine in 1945 and published by Gallimard in 1946.
Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare, first printed in London in 1593, telling of Venus's unrequited pursuit of the huntsman Adonis.
Verse novel
A verse novel is a long narrative work that uses the equipment of a novel, including storyline, setting, characters, dialogue, and viewpoint, but tells its story in verse rather than prose, as in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
Vibhishana (विभीषण)
Vibhishana (विभीषण, Vibhīṣaṇa), Ravana's youngest brother in the Ramayana, defected to Rama after Ravana refused to return Sita, and was crowned king of Lanka. He is also the only Ramayana figure with a Sri Lankan guardian-deity cult, at the Kelaniya temple.
Vichitravirya (विचित्रवीर्य)
Vichitravirya (विचित्रवीर्य), Kuru king of Hastinapur in the Mahabharata: younger son of Shantanu and Satyavati, husband of Ambika and Ambalika, died childless of consumption; Vyasa's niyoga produced Dhritarashtra, Pandu, and Vidura.
Vidura (विदुर)
Vidura (विदुर), also Kshatta, is the Mahabharata's chief counsellor of Hastinapura: son of Vyasa by a maidservant, incarnation of Dharma, author of Vidura Niti, and the epic's voice of dharma.
Vidyasundar
Vidyasundar (Bengali: বিদ্যাসুন্দর), also written Bidyasundar, is a Bengali romantic poem about the secret love of princess Vidya and prince Sundar, composed in 1752 by Bharatchandra Ray as the second part of his Annadamangal.
Vijayavilasamu
Vijayavilasamu is a Telugu prabandha kavya in three cantos by court poet Chemakura Venkata Kavi, composed around 1620–1630, narrating Arjuna's marriages with Chitrangada, Ulupi, and Subhadra.
Vikramarjuna Vijaya
Vikramarjuna Vijaya, popularly known as Pampa Bharata, is a 10th-century Kannada champu epic by the Jain poet Pampa that retells the Mahabharata with Arjuna as its hero.
Vila Rica
Vila Rica is an epic poem by Cláudio Manuel da Costa, written in 1773, narrating the pacification of the Guerra dos Emboabas and the founding of Minas Gerais.
Villibharatam
Villibharatam (வில்லிபாரதம்), also called Villi Bharatam, is a 14th-century Tamil retelling of Vyasa's Mahabharata by the poet Villiputturar, the most important Tamil version of the epic.
Vimana
Vimāna (विमान), a Sanskrit word meaning measurement, palace, aerial chariot, temple spire, or heaven, best known through the Pushpaka flying palace of the Ramayana; ancient-technology claims center on the 20th-century Vaimanika Shastra, judged unairworthy in 1974.
Virgilian epic
Virgilian epic is the tradition of Latin narrative epic founded on Virgil's Aeneid, embracing later ancient and post-classical epics measured against that poem through imitation, inversion, or revision.