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Canal Bank Walk
"Canal Bank Walk" is a 1955 sonnet by the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, written while he recovered from lung cancer surgery on the banks of Dublin's Grand Canal.
Canção do Exílio
Canção do Exílio ("Song of Exile") is a poem by Brazilian Romantic poet Antônio Gonçalves Dias, written in Coimbra in 1843 and published in 1846 in Primeiros Cantos.
Canción de otoño en primavera
"Canción de otoño en primavera" ("Song of Autumn in Spring") is a poem by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, published in his 1905 collection Cantos de vida y esperanza.
Cancioneiro
A cancioneiro (Portuguese for "songbook") is a printed or manuscript book collecting songs, above all the medieval manuscripts preserving Galician-Portuguese troubadour lyric, and, by extension, recordings of those songs.
Cancioneiro da Ajuda
The Cancioneiro da Ajuda (Songbook of Ajuda) is a late 13th-century illuminated parchment manuscript kept in the Ajuda National Palace in Lisbon, the oldest surviving collection of Galician-Portuguese troubadour poetry.
Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional
The Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, also called Cancioneiro Colocci-Brancuti, is the largest manuscript collection of secular Galician-Portuguese troubadour lyric, with about 1,560 cantigas by roughly 150 poets.
Cancioneiro Geral
The Cancioneiro Geral is an anthology of Portuguese court poetry compiled by Garcia de Resende and printed in Lisbon in 1516, gathering about one thousand poems.
Cancionero de Baena
The Cancionero de Baena is a Castilian poetry anthology compiled by Juan Alfonso de Baena around 1430 and dedicated to King Juan II of Castile.
Cangming Ji
Cangming Ji (滄溟集) is the collected works of the Ming dynasty writer Li Panlong, the foremost poet of the Later Seven Masters, in thirty juan plus a one-juan appendix.
Cảnh khuya
Cảnh khuya ("Night Scene") is a four-line Vietnamese poem written by Hồ Chí Minh in 1947 at the Việt Bắc resistance base during the war against the French.
Cantar de gesta
A cantar de gesta, Spanish for "song of deeds", is a medieval Spanish epic poem about a hero, sung publicly by minstrels; the Cantar de Mío Cid is the chief example.
Cantares de Dzitbalché
The Songs of Dzitbalché (Cantares de Dzitbalché) is an 18th-century manuscript of 15 lyric and ritual songs in Yucatec Maya, holding most surviving ancient Maya lyric poetry.
Cantares gallegos
Cantares gallegos (Galician Songs) is an 1863 poetry collection by Rosalía de Castro, published in Vigo and regarded as pivotal in reviving Galician literature, starting the Rexurdimento.
Cantares Mexicanos
The Cantares Mexicanos is a sixteenth-century manuscript of 91 songs in Nahuatl, preserved in the Biblioteca Nacional de México and recognized as the chief source of Aztec poetry.
Canti
Canti (Songs) is the title Giacomo Leopardi gave his collected lyric poetry, first published in Florence in 1831, with a definitive posthumous edition in 1845.
Canti orfici
Canti orfici (Orphic Songs) is the only book by Italian poet Dino Campana, a collection of poems and lyric prose published at his own expense in 1914.
Canticle of the Sun
Canticle of the Sun (Cantico di frate Sole, Laudes creaturarum), religious song by St Francis of Assisi, c. 1224–1225 at San Damiano, first great poem in the Umbrian vernacular praising Brother Sun, Sister Moon, and Sister Death.
Cántico cósmico
Cántico cósmico (Cosmic Canticle) is a 581-page epic poem by Nicaraguan poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal, published in 1989, tracing the universe's history from the Big Bang.
Canto a un dios mineral
"Canto a un dios mineral" is a long philosophical poem by Mexican poet Jorge Cuesta, published posthumously in 1942 and considered among the darkest poems in Spanish.
Canto General
Canto General is an epic poem by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, first published in Mexico in 1950, presenting a poetic history of the Americas in 231 poems.
Cantos de vida y esperanza
Cantos de vida y esperanza is a 1905 book of poetry by the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, published in Madrid and considered the summit of Hispanic American modernismo.
Cants d'Ausiàs March
Cants d'Ausiàs March is the collected poetic corpus of Ausiàs March (1400–1459), a Valencian knight writing in Catalan: 128 poems, over 10,000 verses, divided since 1539 into love, death, moral, and spiritual songs.
Canzoniere
The Canzoniere, known as Rerum vulgarium fragmenta or Rime sparse, is Petrarch's collection of 366 Italian lyric poems, mostly on his love for Laura, that shaped European lyric poetry into the seventeenth century.
Caotang Shiyu
Caotang Shiyu (草堂詩餘) is a Song-dynasty anthology of ci lyrics compiled by an anonymous Southern Song bookseller, which became the most influential of all ci anthologies.
Capitale de la douleur
Capitale de la douleur ("Capital of Pain") is a 1926 collection of poems by Paul Éluard, his first major surrealist work, published in Paris by Gallimard.
Caprichos e Relaxos
Caprichos e Relaxos is a 1983 poetry collection by Brazilian poet Paulo Leminski, his first commercially published anthology, gathering almost twenty years of poetry from 1963 to 1983.
Caramuru
Caramuru is an epic poem by Frei José de Santa Rita Durão, published in Lisbon in 1781, about the shipwrecked Portuguese Diogo Álvares among the Tupinambá.
Carita Pantun
Carita Pantun is a Sundanese oral epic tradition in which a performer called a juru pantun sings long narrative poems about the pre-Islamic kingdoms of Galuh and Pajajaran.
Carmen de Hastingae Proelio
The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio, "Song of the Battle of Hastings," is a Latin poem attributed to Guy, Bishop of Amiens, recounting William of Normandy's conquest of England in 1066.
Carmen Paschale
The Carmen Paschale is a Latin biblical epic in five books by the fifth-century poet Sedulius, retelling Christ's deeds and admired in the Middle Ages as the Christian Virgil.