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Het uur U
Het uur U is a 1937 narrative poem by the Dutch poet Martinus Nijhoff about a stranger whose passing stirs panic in a quiet street.
Heungbuga
Heungbuga (흥보가) is one of the five surviving madang of pansori, the Korean sung narrative tradition. It tells of the kind, poor Heungbu and his wealthy, greedy older brother Nolbo.
Hikayat Awang Sulong Merah Muda
Hikayat Awang Sulong Merah Muda is a Malay folk epic about an Orang Laut youth who becomes Sultan of Semarang through marriage to a Javanese princess.
Hikayat Prang Sabi
Hikayat Prang Sabi, also called Hikayat Prang Kaphe, is an Acehnese heroic epic poem written in Jawi script, best known through the version of Teungku Chiek Pante Kulu.
Hindi epic poetry
Hindi epic poetry (Hindi mahakavya) is the tradition of long narrative poems in Hindi and its dialects, adapting the Sanskrit mahakavya, with Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas and Prasad's Kamayani among its greatest works.
Hinilawod
Hinilawod is an epic chant of the Sulod (Panay Bukidnon) people of central Panay in the Philippines, meaning "Tales of the Halawod River," running over 28,000 verses and about three days of continuous recitation.
Historia de la Nueva México
Historia de la Nueva México is a 1610 Spanish epic poem by Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá narrating Juan de Oñate's 1598 expedition into New Mexico.
Homeric epic
Homeric epic is the ancient Greek epic tradition embodied in the Iliad and the Odyssey, orally composed in dactylic hexameter and setting the standard for Greco-Roman epic.
Host and Guest
Host and Guest (Georgian: სტუმარ-მასპინძელი, Stumar-Maspindzeli) is an 1893 epic poem by Georgian writer Vazha-Pshavela, telling of a host who shelters a blood enemy despite his community's demands.
Hua Mulan (花木兰)
Hua Mulan (花木兰), also Mulan or 木兰, is a legendary Chinese woman warrior from the Northern Dynasties ballad The Ballad of Mulan, who served in her father's place for twelve years; her surname Hua was a Ming-dynasty invention by playwright Xu Wei, and Disney adapted her in 1998 and 2020 films.
Hudhud hi Aliguyon
Hudhud hi Aliguyon (The Harvest Song of Aliguyon) is an Ifugao chant of northern Luzon, Philippines, recounting the hero Aliguyon, best known through Daguio's 1952 English translation.
Hudibras
Hudibras is a satirical mock-heroic poem in three parts by Samuel Butler, published in 1663, 1664, and 1678, ridiculing Puritans and other factions of the English Civil War.
Huon of Bordeaux
Huon of Bordeaux (Huon de Bordeaux) is a 13th-century Old French chanson de geste in which the knight Huon, aided by the fairy king Oberon, completes impossible missions.
Hüsrev ü Şirin
Hüsrev ü Şirin (خسرو و شيرين) is a classical love story of the Sâsânî king Hüsrev and Şîrîn, best known from Nizâmî's 1180 Persian mesnevi and Şeyhî's Ottoman version.
I-Juca-Pirama
I-Juca-Pirama is an 1851 narrative poem by the Brazilian Romantic poet Antônio Gonçalves Dias, published in Últimos cantos; its Tupi title means 'he who is to be killed.'
Ibong Adarna
Ibong Adarna (The Adarna Bird) is an anonymous Tagalog korido about three princes capturing a magical healing bird on Mount Tabor; a Grade 7 Philippine school text adapted into the landmark 1941 LVN film and 1997 animated film.
Idylls of the King
Idylls of the King is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published between 1859 and 1885, retelling the legend of King Arthur.
Il giorno
Il giorno ("The Day") is a satirical poem by Italian poet Giuseppe Parini, first published from 1763, that mocks the idleness and vanity of the 18th-century Milanese aristocracy.
Ilahi-Nama
The Ilahi-Nama (الهینامه, "Book of God") is a Persian mystical poem by Farid al-Din Attar, in which a king answers his six sons' worldly wishes with Sufi teachings.
Iliad (λιάς)
The Iliad (Ιλιάδα), Homer's ancient Greek epic of Achilles' wrath in the Trojan War, 24 books dated around 750 BC, orally composed, with over 1,000 surviving manuscripts and a rich translation history.
Ilias Latina
The Ilias Latina is a 1,070-line Latin hexameter poem, generally attributed to Baebius Italicus and dated around 54–65 CE, that condenses Homer's Iliad into a brief epitome.
In Parenthesis
In Parenthesis is a 1937 epic poem by British artist David Jones, following infantryman John Ball to Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme.
Incurable
Incurable is a book-length poem by the Mexican poet David Huerta, first published in 1987 by Ediciones Era and widely regarded as the central work of his career.
Inder Sabha
Inder Sabha (اندر سبھا, "The Court of Indra") is an Urdu verse musical play by the Lucknow poet Amanat, first staged in 1853 and generally treated as the first complete Urdu drama.
Indravati
Indravati (इंद्रावती) is a Sufi premakhyan, a love-narrative poem in Awadhi composed by Noor Muhammad in 1744, telling of Rajkunwar and Indravati as an allegory of the soul's longing for divine light.
Inferno (Dante)
Inferno, first canticle of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, is a 34-canto terza rima descent through nine circles of Hell guided by Virgil, written about 1307 to 1321 in exile, first fully translated into English by Rogers in 1782 and endlessly adapted in art and film.
Invenção de Orfeu
Invenção de Orfeu is a 1952 epic-lyric poem in ten cantos by the Brazilian modernist poet Jorge de Lima, published a year before his death and treated as the culmination of his career.
Iohannis
The Iohannis is an eight-book Latin epic by the sixth-century African poet Corippus, honoring the Byzantine general John Troglita and his campaigns against the Moors of North Africa.
Iravan
Iravan (Aravan, அரவான்), also Koothandavar, is a Mahabharata figure, son of Arjuna and Ulupi, worshipped by Tamil transgender Aravani communities; his marriage and sacrifice are reenacted yearly at the 18-day Koovagam festival in Villupuram, Tamil Nadu.
Irupatham Noottandinte Ithihasam
Irupatham Noottandinte Ithihasam ("The Epic of the Twentieth Century") is a Malayalam khandakavyam, a sectional long poem, written by Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri and first published in the Mathrubhumi weekly in August 1952.