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Cilappatikaram
Cilappatikāram (சிலப்பதிகாரம், The Tale of the Anklet), the earliest Tamil epic by Iḷaṅgō Aḍigaḷ, telling of Kaṇṇaki, Kōvalaṉ, and Madurai's destruction; twin epic of Maṇimēkalai.
Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi (சீவக சிந்தாமணி)
Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi (சீவக சிந்தாமணி), also known as Jivaka Chintamani, is a 9th-century Jain epic poem in Tamil by the monk Tiruttakkatēvar, counted among the Five Great Epics of Tamil literature.
Cligès
Cligès is an Arthurian romance in Old French verse by Chrétien de Troyes, composed around 1176: 6,664 octosyllabic lines blending Arthurian Britain with a Byzantine setting in Constantinople.
Confessio Amantis
Confessio Amantis, meaning "The Lover's Confession," is a Middle English narrative poem by John Gower, written between 1385 and 1408 and framed as a confession to a priest of Venus.
Continuations de Perceval
The Continuations de Perceval are four Old French verse poems of about 1200 to 1230 that carry Chrétien de Troyes's unfinished Perceval, ou le Conte du Graal forward to a conclusion.
Culamani
Culamani (சூளாமணி), meaning "crest jewel," is a Tamil Jain epic by Tolamozhi Thevar, one of the five minor Tamil epics, commonly dated to the 10th century.
Cung oán ngâm khúc
Cung oán ngâm khúc, written in 18th-century chữ Nôm script by the poet Nguyễn Gia Thiều, is an extended lament from the perspective of a discarded palace concubine.
Cursor Mundi
Cursor Mundi is an anonymous Middle English poem of roughly 24,000 to 30,000 lines, written in the Northern dialect around 1300, retelling Christian history from the Creation to Doomsday.
Cynegetica
Cynegetica (Τὰ Κυνηγετικά, "On Hunting") is a Greek didactic poem on hunting in four books by a Syrian poet called Pseudo-Oppian, addressed to Caracalla around 212 to 217 CE.
Cypria
The Cypria (Greek Κύπρια) was a lost ancient Greek epic poem telling the causes of the Trojan War and the war's first nine years, ending where the Iliad begins.
Dagwerck
Dagwerck ("day's work") is a Dutch long poem by Constantijn Huygens, written between 1627 and 1638, describing his marriage to Suzanna van Baerle through the course of a single day.
Dalimil's Chronicle
Dalimil's Chronicle (Kronika tak řečeného Dalimila) is a rhymed Czech verse chronicle of the early 14th century and the oldest historical work composed in the Czech language.
Đăm Săn
Đăm Săn, also written Đam Săn, is the great oral epic of the Ê Đê people of Vietnam's Central Highlands, chanted in the khan genre in 2,077 verses.
Dante's Satan
Dante's Satan, Lucifer in Inferno Canto XXXIV, is the three-faced, six-winged archangel frozen waist-deep in Cocytus at Hell's center, silently chewing Judas, Brutus, and Cassius while his wings freeze the lake, contrasting sharply with Milton's active Satan.
Darangen
The Darangen is an ancient epic chant of the Maranao people of Lake Lanao, Mindanao, Philippines, totaling 72,000 lines and proclaimed a UNESCO heritage masterpiece in 2005.
Dasakumaracharitramu
Dasakumaracharitramu (దశకుమారచరిత్రము) is a Telugu verse rendering of Dandin's Sanskrit romance about ten young princes, made by Ketana in the 13th century and counted the first katha kavya in Telugu.
Dastan-e-Amir Hamza
Dastan-e-Amir Hamza (داستانِ امیر حمزہ) is an epic Urdu tale of fantasy and adventure built loosely around Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib, uncle of the Prophet Muhammad.
Đất nước
Đất nước is a Vietnamese lyric-epic poem by Nguyễn Đình Thi, begun in 1948 during the resistance war against France and celebrated for its closing lines.
Dausi
Dausi is the epic cycle of the Soninke people of West Africa, an oral tradition preserving the legendary history of Wagadu, the Ghana Empire, most of which has been lost.
De Actibus Apostolorum
De Actibus Apostolores is a two-book Latin epic poem by the sixth-century poet Arator that retells the biblical Acts of the Apostles in dactylic hexameters, completed in 544.
De Consulatu Stilichonis
De Consulatu Stilichonis ("On the Consulship of Stilicho") is a three-book Latin epic panegyric by Claudian, court poet to Honorius, celebrating Stilicho's consulship in AD 400; the third book describes his arrival in Rome.
De contemptu mundi
De contemptu mundi ("On the contempt of the world") is a Latin satirical poem in three books written around 1144 by Bernard of Cluny, a monk of Cluny whose work inspired hymns like "Jerusalem the Golden".
De Raptu Proserpinae
De Raptu Proserpinae is an unfinished Latin mythological epic in three books by Claudian, composed in the late fourth century, retelling Pluto's abduction of Proserpina.
Death in a Stone Cell
Death in a Stone Cell (石室之死亡) is a landmark modernist long poem by the Taiwanese poet Lo Fu, begun in 1959 during the Kinmen–Xiamen artillery exchange and published in 1965.
Der Messias
Der Messias (The Messiah) is a German religious epic in 20 cantos by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, retelling the Passion and resurrection of Jesus in dactylic hexameters.
Der Rosengarten zu Worms
Der Rosengarten zu Worms, also called Der Große Rosengarten, is an anonymous 13th-century Middle High German heroic poem about twelve combats in Kriemhild's rose garden.
Der Untergang der Titanic
Der Untergang der Titanic is an epic poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, published in 1978, retelling the 1912 sinking of the Titanic in 33 cantos.
Der Welsche Gast
Der Welsche Gast ("The Romance Stranger") is a roughly 15,000-line didactic poem in Middle High German, composed in 1215/16 by Thomasin von Zerclaere as the first German code of conduct.
Dessan
Dessan (also spelled destan or dastan) is an epic genre of Turkmen literature, known since the 18th century, that combines fairy tales, folk legends, and love or heroic material.
Destan
Destan is a long versified narrative in Turkish literature that recounts historical and social events through heroes' extraordinary adventures, traditionally performed with melody before an audience.