2,935 articles
Broquéis
Broquéis is a book of poems in verse by the Brazilian poet João da Cruz e Sousa, published in August 1893, that inaugurated Symbolism in Brazilian literature alongside Missal.
Brothers Poem
The Brothers Poem (Brothers Song) is a Sappho lyric published in 2014 by Dirk Obbink, praying to Hera for brother Charaxos's safe return and hoping Larichos grows into a man; its addressee and provenance are debated.
Brunizem
Brunizem is the 1988 first poetry collection by Indian poet Sujata Bhatt, published by Carcanet Press, which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award.
Buah Rindu
Buah Rindu, published under the old spelling Boeah Rindoe, is a 1941 poetry collection by the Indonesian poet Amir Hamzah, written in Java between 1928 and 1935.
Buckow Elegies
The Buckow Elegies (Buckower Elegien) are a cycle of short poems by Bertolt Brecht, written in 1953 at his country house in Buckow in reaction to the East German uprising.
Buda halála
Buda halála (The Death of Buda) is a Hungarian narrative epic in twelve cantos by János Arany, written 1862–1863 and published in Pest in 1864.
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.
Buile Shuibhne
Buile Shuibhne (Buile Suibhne, The Frenzy/Madness of Suibhne) is a medieval Irish prosimetric tale in which the Ulster king Suibhne (Sweeney), cursed by St Rónán, goes mad at the battle of Magh Rath (637) and lives wild like a bird as a poet; edited by O'Keeffe in 1913 and translated by Heaney as Sweeney Astray.
Bujangga Manik
Bujangga Manik is an Old Sundanese narrative poem of about 1500, preserved on a single palm-leaf manuscript in the Bodleian Library, recounting a Hindu-Sundanese hermit's travels through Java and Bali.
Bulletin Debate
The Bulletin Debate was an 1892 exchange of poems in The Bulletin between Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson over realism versus romanticism in depicting the Australian bush.
Bullocky
"Bullocky" is a poem by the Australian poet Judith Wright, first published in The Bulletin in 1944, which casts a bullock driver as an "old Moses" leading his team to the Promised Land.
Bunka Shūreishū
Bunka Shūreishū (文華秀麗集, Collection of Masterpieces of Literary Talent) is a Japanese anthology of Chinese-style poetry compiled in 818 by imperial command of Emperor Saga.
Burlesque
Burlesque: comic treatment of serious subjects, from Italian burlesco (burla, jest), entering English 1656; covers the literary genre, Victorian and American variety theater, striptease-era burlesque, and the 1990s neo-burlesque revival.
Burnt Norton
"Burnt Norton" is a meditative poem by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1936 and later the opening poem of Four Quartets, which it set the five-part form for.
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.
Busuanzi: Ode to Plum Blossom
Busuanzi: Ode to Plum Blossom (卜算子·咏梅) is a Chinese ci poem by the Southern Song poet Lu You, an allegory of political isolation and integrity.
Büyük Saat
Büyük Saat ("The Great Clock") is the collected-works volume of Turkish poet Turgut Uyar, first published in 1984 and expanded in 2002 to gather all his poems.
By die Monument
By die Monument is the debut poetry collection of the Afrikaans poet Totius, published in 1908 to mourn the Boer women and children who died in the Second Boer War.
By the Right of Memory
By the Right of Memory (По праву памяти) is the last poem of Russian Soviet poet Alexander Tvardovsky, reflecting on Stalin-era repressions and his exiled father.
Bylina
A bylina (былина), also called starina by performers, is a Russian folk epic song of heroic bogatyrs of the 11th to 16th centuries, first recorded in the 19th century.
Byronic hero
Byronic hero: literary archetype named for Lord Byron, first seen in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; a brooding, arrogant, morally ambiguous outcast with magnetic charm, descended from Gothic villains and Miltonic Satan, and continued in Heathcliff, Rochester, and modern film and TV antiheroes.
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.
Caged Bird
"Caged Bird" is a 1983 poem by Maya Angelou contrasting a free bird with a caged bird that sings of freedom, as a metaphor for racial inequity.
Calafia
Calafia is the fictional Amazon queen of the island of California in Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo's chivalric romance Las Sergas de Esplandián (c. 1510); her golden island of warrior women is the likely source of the name California.
Calligrammes
Calligrammes is a 1918 poetry collection by Guillaume Apollinaire, written between 1913 and 1916, that named the calligram, a poem whose typographical layout draws a picture.
Calling Out to Yeti
Calling Out to Yeti (Wołanie do Yeti) is a 1957 poetry collection by the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, her third book of verse and widely seen as her true debut.
Campo di Fiori
"Campo di Fiori" is a 1943 poem by the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, juxtaposing Giordano Bruno's 1600 burning in Rome with the burning of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Campos de Castilla
Campos de Castilla (Fields of Castile) is a 1912 poetry collection by Antonio Machado that turns from intimate verse toward the Castilian landscape and Spain's regeneration.
Çanakkale Destanı
Çanakkale Destanı, meaning "The Epic of Çanakkale," is a verse epic on the 1915 Gallipoli campaign by Turkish poet Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, published in İstanbul in 1965.