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Vis and Ramin
Vis and Ramin (Persian: ویس و رامین) is an 11th-century Persian verse romance by Fakhr al-Din As'ad Gorgani, telling of the love between Vis, a queen of Media, and Ramin.
Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang
Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang (王贵与李香香) is a 1946 narrative poem by the Chinese poet Li Ji, telling of two young peasants whose love is fulfilled through the land revolution.
Wethandaya Pyo
Wethandaya Pyo is a Burmese pyo, an ornate classical verse work retelling the Vessantara Jataka, the tale of Prince Vessantara whose perfect generosity is rewarded with a triumphant homecoming.
Who Is Happy in Russia?
Who Is Happy in Russia? (Кому на Руси жить хорошо) is an unfinished epic poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written from the mid-1860s until his death in 1877.
Wigalois
Wigalois (also spelled Gwîgalois) is a Middle High German Arthurian verse romance by Wirnt von Grafenberg, written around 1210/1220, whose hero, Gawein's son, wins a kingdom through adventures.
Willehalm
Willehalm is an unfinished Middle High German verse epic by Wolfram von Eschenbach, composed around 1210–1220, retelling the wars of the Christian count Willehalm against the Saracens.
Wojna chocimska
Wojna chocimska is a Polish Baroque epic by Wacław Potocki, written about 1670, describing the 1621 battle of Chocim; it is the largest seventeenth-century Polish epic.
Wolof griot epic
The Wolof griot epic is the oral heroic tradition performed by griots among the Wolof people of Senegal and Gambia, best known through the Epic of Kajoor.
Worin cheongang jigok
Worin cheongang jigok (월인천강지곡) is a Korean Buddhist song cycle of 583 verses composed by King Sejong the Great of Joseon in 1447, praising the life of the Buddha in Hangul.
X/Self
X/Self is a 1987 book-length poem by the Barbadian poet and historian Edward Kamau Brathwaite, completing his trilogy begun with Mother Poem (1977) and Sun Poem (1982).
Yama Zatdaw
Yama Zatdaw (ရာမဇာတ်တော်) is the Burmese version of the Ramayana, treated as a Jataka story of Theravada Buddhism and regarded as Myanmar's unofficial national epic, with Rama known as Yama and Sita as Thida.
Yashodhara
Yashodhara (यशोधरा) is a 1932 Hindi narrative poem by Maithili Sharan Gupt, the Rashtrakavi, retelling the Buddha's renunciation from the viewpoint of his abandoned wife Yashodhara.
Yashodhara Charite
Yashodhara Charite (ಯಶೋಧರ ಚರಿತೆ) is a Kannada Jain narrative poem composed by the poet Janna in 1209, telling how a king, his mother, and his wife suffer violent rebirths.
Yayati
Yayati (ययाति, Yayati) is a lunar-dynasty emperor of the Mahabharata's Adi Parva, cursed with old age by Shukra; his son Puru took it in exchange, and Yayati's sons Yadu and Puru founded the Yadava and Kuru lines.
Yogavasishtha
Yogavasishtha (योगवासिष्ठ), also known as the Mokṣopāya or Mahārāmāyaṇa, is a large Sanskrit philosophical poem in which the sage Vasiṣṭha teaches the young prince Rāma about non-duality, the illusory nature of the world, and liberation.
Ysengrimus
Ysengrimus is a Latin beast epic of more than 6,500 lines written at Ghent around 1148 to 1152, the earliest complete medieval beast epic and the debut of Reynard the Fox.
Yuan Phai
Yuan Phai, also known as Lilit Yuan Phai, is a Thai historical epic poem praising King Borommatrailokanat of Ayutthaya for his victory over Lan Na around 1475.
Yuanyuan Qu
Yuanyuan Qu (圓圓曲, The Song of Yuanyuan) is a long narrative poem by the early Qing poet Wu Weiye about the courtesan Chen Yuanyuan and the Ming general Wu Sangui.
Yudhishthira (युधिष्ठिर)
Yudhishthira (युधिष्ठिर), Dharmaraja, eldest Pandava son of the god Dharma in the Mahabharata; lost kingdom, brothers, and Draupadi in Shakuni's dice game, endured exile, the Yaksha Prashna, and ruled after Kurukshetra.
Yukar
Yukar (Ainu: ユカㇻ) is the chanted oral epic literature of the Ainu people, the indigenous inhabitants of Hokkaido, comprising heroic epics and mythic epics narrated by gods.
Yusuf and Zulaikha
Yusuf and Zulaikha (یوسف و زلیخا, Yusuf o Zulaykha) is Jami's 1483 Persian mathnawi of 4,032 couplets in the Haft Awrang, retelling Joseph and Potiphar's wife as a Sufi romance ending in her redemption and marriage.
Yûsuf u Züleyhâ
Yûsuf u Züleyhâ (يوسف و زليخا) is the title shared by mesnevis on the love of the prophet Yusuf and Züleyhâ, written across Persian, Turkish, and Urdu literatures.
Yuyutsu (युयुत्सु)
Yuyutsu (युयुत्सु), also Vaiśyāputra, is the Mahabharata's son of Dhritarashtra by a Vaishya woman, half-brother of the Kauravas, the only one who defected to the Pandavas and survived the Kurukshetra war, later Parikshit's guardian.
Zaczarowana dorożka
Zaczarowana dorożka (The Enchanted Carriage) is a 1946 narrative poem by the Polish poet Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński about a magical night cab ride through Kraków.
Zadonshchina
Zadonshchina (Задонщина) is a lyrical poetic work of Old Russian literature commemorating the Russian victory over Mamai at the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380, deliberately structured as a counterpart to The Tale of Igor's Campaign.
Zahhak
Zahhak (ضحاک), from Avestan Azi Dahaka, is the serpent-shouldered tyrant of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh who ruled Iran a thousand years after usurping Jamshid, fed his snakes human brains, and was imprisoned in Mount Damavand by Feridun after Kaveh's revolt.
Zohre and Tahir
Zohre and Tahir (Tâhir ile Zühre) is a love dastan, a prosimetric epic often likened to Romeo and Juliet, circulating across Turkic traditions from Central Asia to Turkey.