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Abba Kovner (אבא קובנר)
Abba Kovner (אבא קובנר, 1918–1987), Hebrew poet, Vilna ghetto partisan leader, head of the Nakam avengers, Givati Brigade culture officer, Israel Prize 1970 laureate, and Diaspora Museum founder.
Abhisarika
Abhisarika (अभिसारिका) is, in Sanskrit poetics and dramaturgy, the heroine who bravely goes alone, often at night, to meet her beloved for union. She is the eighth nayika in Bharata Muni's Natya Shastra.
Aintinai Aimpatu
Aintinai Aimpatu ("fifty stanzas on the fivefold landscape-love behavior") is a classical Tamil poetic work of fifty love poems by Pulli Maran Poraiyanar, part of the Pathinenkilkanakku.
Airs of the States
Airs of the States (国风, guofeng) is the first and largest section of the Classic of Poetry, China's oldest anthology, containing 160 poems from 15 Zhou states.
Aitys of Birzhan and Sara
The aitys of Birzhan and Sara (Біржан мен Сара айтысы) is a celebrated Kazakh improvised poetic contest, commonly dated 1871, remembered for raising Kazakh women's freedom.
Al-Amali
Al-Amali (الأمالي, "The Dictations") is a tenth-century Arabic anthology of language and poetry dictated in Cordoba by Abu Ali al-Qali, one of the four pillars of adab named by Ibn Khaldun.
Al-Burda (قصيدة البردة)
Al-Burda (قصيدة البردة), formally al-Kawākib al-Durriyya, is al-Busiri's 7th-century AH Arabic ode praising the Prophet Muhammad, in ten chapters and about 160 verses, distinct from Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's original Burda and widely recited, commented, and translated.
Al-Ma'arri
Al-Ma'arri (أبو العلاء المعري, 973–1057), Arab Abbasid poet and philosopher of Ma'arrat al-Numan, blind from childhood, author of Saqt al-Zand, the Luzumiyat, and Risalat al-Ghufran, famous for forty years of seclusion, asceticism, and the centuries-long controversy over his creed.
American poetry
American poetry: verse of the United States from 1610 colonial beginnings through the nineteenth century, Eliot, and the postwar anti-tradition to today's diverse, prize-supported scene, marked by openness to outside traditions and formal reinvention.
Amir Khusrau
Amir Khusrau (Amir Khusrow Dehlavi, 1253–1325), the 'Parrot of India,' was a Delhi Sultanate Persian and Hindavi poet, Sufi disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya, author of the first Persian Khamsa, and figure credited with founding qawwali.
Andalusi poetry
Andalusi poetry (الشعر الأندلسي) is the Arabic poetry of al-Andalus, Muslim-ruled Iberia, which developed from eastern models into distinctive strophic forms, the muwashshah and zajal.
Antarah ibn Shaddad
Antarah ibn Shaddad (عنترة بن شداد), pre-Islamic Arabian warrior-poet of Banu 'Abs, author of one of the Mu'allaqat; son of an Abyssinian slave mother, lover of 'Abla, hero of the epic Sīrat 'Antar, and one of the canonical Six Poets.
Apabhramsha kavya
Apabhramsha kavya (अपभ्रंश काव्य) is poetry composed in Apabhramsha, the late Middle Indo-Aryan literary language between the Prakrits and modern languages like Hindi and Gujarati.
Arabic poetry (الشعر العربي)
Arabic poetry (الشعر العربي), measured rhymed verse in Arabic from the pre-Islamic era onward: al-Khalil's sixteen metres, the monorhyme qasida, the Mu'allaqat, Abbasid and Andalusian forms, and the Nahda revival.
Arabic popular poetry
Arabic popular poetry (الشعر الشعبي), also called shiʿr al-ʿāmmiyya, is poetry composed in spoken Arabic dialects rather than Classical Arabic, transmitted by performance and song.
At the End of September
At the End of September (Szeptember végén) is an 1847 elegy by Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi, written for his wife Szendrey Júlia during their honeymoon at Koltó.
Attakatha
Attakatha (ആട്ടക്കഥ), meaning "enacted story", is the literary text written for performance in Kathakali, the classical dance-drama of Kerala, composed in Manipravalam; Unnayi Warrier's Nalacharitam is its finest example.
Australian Aboriginal poetry movement
The Australian Aboriginal poetry movement is the written verse of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, published since Oodgeroo Noonuccal's pioneering 1964 collection We Are Going.
Ballad of the East Gate
Ballad of the East Gate (Dongmen xing, 东门行) is an anonymous Han-dynasty yuefu ballad about a poor man who resolves on a desperate course despite his wife's pleas.
Berzanji
Berzanji (برزنجي), also spelled Barzanji, is a Southeast Asian devotional recitation praising the Prophet Muhammad in rhythmic song, based on an Arabic text by Ja'far al-Barzanji, who died in 1766.
Bharuds of Eknath
The Bharuds of Eknath (एकनाथांचे भारूड) are allegorical, singable devotional poems by the sixteenth-century Marathi saint-poet Eknath of Paithan, who brought the form its greatest popularity.
Braj Bhasha poetry
Braj Bhasha poetry (ब्रजभाषा काव्य) is verse composed in Braj Bhasha, a Western Hindi dialect and the chief poetic language of North India from the medieval period into the early twentieth century.
Buduguna Alankaraya
Buduguna Alankaraya (බුදුගුණාලංකාරය) is a Sinhala classical poem on the Nine Great Qualities of the Buddha, composed in the ornate alankara tradition of the Kotte period.
Bustan
Bustan (بوستان), also known as Sa'di-nama, is a moralistic and anecdotal Persian verse work of some 4,100 couplets by the poet Sa'di of Shiraz, completed in 1257.
Ca dao
Ca dao is a genre of Vietnamese folk poetry expressing the feelings of ordinary working people, transmitted orally and usually composed in the six-eight lục bát verse form.
Cædmon's Hymn
Cædmon's Hymn, a nine-line Old English praise poem by the seventh-century Whitby herdsman Cædmon, is the oldest surviving English poem with a known author, preserved via Bede's Latin paraphrase and later manuscripts, including a ninth-century copy rediscovered in Rome in 2026.
Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–54 BCE) was a Roman poet of the late Republic whose surviving collection of more than a hundred poems treats love and invective.
Chbap
Chbap (ច្បាប់, also romanized cpap or chbab) is a genre of Khmer didactic literature, rhyming verse transmitting moral codes of conduct, known in Cambodia since the 17th century.
Chuzhou West Stream
Chuzhou West Stream (滁州西涧) is a famous Tang dynasty landscape quatrain by the poet Wei Yingwu, written while serving as prefect of Chuzhou in present-day Anhui province.
Cold Food
Cold Food (寒食) is a Tang dynasty seven-character quatrain by Han Hong, poem 78 of the Three Hundred Tang Poems, depicting the Cold Food festival in Chang'an.