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Garibname
Garibname, also known as Garîb-nâme, is a mystical-didactic mesnevi in Anatolian Turkish completed by the Sufi poet Âşık Paşa in 1330, among the earliest works establishing Turkish as a literary language.
Georgics
The Georgics is Virgil's didactic poem on the farmer's year, four books of Latin hexameter finished around 29 BC, covering crops, vines, cattle, and bees.
Germany. A Winter's Tale
Germany. A Winter's Tale (Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen) is an 1844 satirical verse epic by Heinrich Heine, in which an exile returning from Paris surveys the political Germany of the Vormärz period.
Ghatotkacha (घटोत्कच)
Ghatotkacha (घटोत्कच, Gatotkaca in Javanese) is the rakshasa son of Bhima and Hidimba in the Mahabharata, a Pandava night-fighter killed by Karna's Indra-given Shakti, famed in wayang theater and modern retellings.
Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld
Sumerian poem GEN (ETCSL 1.8.1.4), also Gilgamesh and the halub tree, predating the Epic of Gilgamesh; Enkidu descends to the netherworld and reports on the dead; survives as Tablet XII.
Girart de Roussillon
Girart de Roussillon is a 12th-century Old French and Old Occitan epic poem of about 10,000 lines recounting the vassal Girart's wars against King Charles the Bald.
Girart de Vienne
Girart de Vienne is an Old French chanson de geste by Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, written around 1180, telling of Girart's defense of Vienne against Charlemagne.
Gita Govinda
Gita Govinda (गीत गोविन्द), also Gitagovinda, is a 12th-century Sanskrit lyric poem by Jayadeva on the love of Radha and Krishna, in 12 chapters and 24 ashtapadi songs, sung nightly at Puri's Jagannath temple and central to Odissi dance and Indian painting traditions.
Gora Badal ki Katha
Gora Badal ki Katha (गोरा बादल की कथा) is a Hindi narrative poem by Jatmal Nahar, composed in 1623 and counted among the first works in Khari Boli.
Grandeza mexicana
Grandeza mexicana (Mexican Greatness) is a long descriptive poem by Bernardo de Balbuena, published in Mexico City in 1604, celebrating the capital of New Spain.
Grażyna
Grażyna is an 1823 classicist epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz in which the duchess Grażyna, disguised as a man, leads Lithuania's army against the Teutonic Order.
Grendel
Grendel is the Cain-descended monster of the Old English epic Beowulf, who terrorizes the hall Heorot for twelve years before Beowulf kills him bare-handed; also the subject of John Gardner's 1971 novel.
Grendel's mother
Grendel's mother, or Grendles modor in Old English, is the second monster Beowulf fights in Beowulf, avenging her son Grendel. The disputed epithet ides aglæc-wif ('monster-woman' or 'warrior-woman'), her feminist reappraisal, and modern adaptations distinguish the character.
Gül ü Bülbül
Gül ü Bülbül ("Rose and Nightingale") is the shared name of allegorical masnavi tales in Persian, Turkish, and Turkic literature about the love between a rose and a nightingale.
Guman
The guman is an epic chant of the Subanon people of northwestern Mindanao, Philippines, sung over three to four nights; its best-known version, The Guman of Dumalinao, was published in 1980 with 4,062 lines.
Hadîkatü's-Süedâ
Hadîkatü's-Süedâ (حديقة السعداء, The Garden of the Blessed) is a prose work by the 16th-century poet Fuzûlî on the martyrdom of Husayn at Karbala, the most celebrated Turkish maktel.
Hadiqat al-Su'ada
Hadiqat al-Su'ada (Hədiqətüs-süəda, "Garden of the Blessed") is a prose work on the Karbala tragedy written in Azerbaijani Turkish by the poet Muhammad Fuzuli around 1556.
Haft Peykar
Haft Peykar (هفت پیکر), also known as Bahrām-nāme or Yeddi gözəl, is a romantic epic by Nezami Ganjavi, completed in 1197 as the fourth poem of his Khamsa.
Haidamaky
Haidamaky (Гайдамаки, "The Haidamaks") is a historical-heroic poem by Taras Shevchenko, his first major poem, published in Saint Petersburg in 1841 about the 1768 Koliyivshchyna uprising.
Haiduti
Haiduti, also known as Father and Son, is an unfinished long poem by the Bulgarian poet Hristo Botev, probably begun around 1866 and first published in 1871.
Harivamshapurana
The Harivamshapurana (हरिवंशपुराण), also called Arishtanemi-purana, is a Sanskrit Jaina purana by the monk Jinasena, completed in 783 CE as the first Jaina retelling of the Mahabharata.
Havelok the Dane
Havelok the Dane, also known as The Lay of Havelok the Dane, is a Middle English romance of about 3,001 lines, usually dated to the late thirteenth century.
Hayrâbâd
Hayrâbâd (خيرآباد) is a mesnevi, a narrative poem in rhymed couplets, by the Ottoman poet Nâbî, completed in Aleppo in 1705 as the last of his works.
Hayriyye
Hayriyye, formally titled Hayrî-nâme, is a didactic masnavi by the Ottoman poet Nâbî, written in Aleppo in 1701 as moral and practical advice for his seven-year-old son.
Heer Ranjha (ہیر رانجھا)
Heer Ranjha (ہیر رانجھا), the classic Punjabi tragic romance of Heer of the Sial family of Jhang and the herdsman Ranjha, first versified by Damodar Gulati and made immortal by Waris Shah's 1766 epic Heer.
Heliand
The Heliand is an epic Old Saxon poem of about 6,000 lines that retells the life of Jesus in Germanic alliterative verse, written around 830 to 840.
Hermann and Dorothea
Hermann and Dorothea (Hermann und Dorothea) is an epic poem in hexameters by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, telling of a German innkeeper's son and a refugee girl.
Herod and Herodias
Herod and Herodias (Herodes a Herodias) is a 1909 verse tragedy by Slovak writer Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav dramatizing the biblical story of Herod, Herodias, and John the Baptist.
Herzog Ernst
Herzog Ernst (Duke Ernest) is a Middle High German verse epic, composed around 1180, about a Bavarian duke who rebels against his emperor and adventures in the Orient.
Hesiodic poetry
Hesiodic poetry is the early Greek epic verse attributed to Hesiod, a Boeotian poet of the eighth or early seventh century BCE, including the Theogony and Works and Days.