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Drupada
Drupada (द्रुपद), also Yajnasena, is the king of Panchala in the Mahabharata, father of Draupadi, Dhrishtadyumna, and Sikhandi, Drona's estranged friend and enemy, killed by Drona in the war.
Du mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve
Du mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve, On the Motion and Immobility of Douve, is a 1953 poetry collection, the first book by the French poet Yves Bonnefoy.
Duanchang Ji
Duanchang Ji (断肠集), or Collection of Broken Guts, is a Song dynasty poetry collection by woman poet Zhu Shuzhen, compiled after her death in 1182.
Dugu Pian
Dugu Pian, or Dugu bujian, is a seven-character regulated poem (qilü) by the early Tang poet Shen Quanqi, portraying a Chang'an wife whose husband has been garrisoned at Liaoyang for ten years.
Duino Elegies
The Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien) are a cycle of ten elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke, begun in 1912 at Duino castle and completed in 1922.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, from Horace's Odes 3.2.13 (23 BC), means 'it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country'; it appears on war memorials and was rejected as 'the old Lie' in Wilfred Owen's World War I poem.
Đulići
Đulići (Ђулићи, "little roses") is a cycle of love poems by the Serbian poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, written for his wife Ruža and published in Novi Sad in 1864.
Dunhuang quzi ci
Dunhuang quzi ci (敦煌曲子詞) are a corpus of Chinese song lyrics preserved in Tang, Five Dynasties, and early Song manuscripts from the Mogao Grottoes library cave, precursors of Song ci.
Dünyanın En Güzel Arabistanı
Dünyanın En Güzel Arabistanı is a 1959 poetry collection by the Turkish poet Turgut Uyar, where he abandoned his early socially themed verse and helped pioneer the İkinci Yeni movement.
Duravastha
Duravastha ("Misery") is a Malayalam khanda kavya by N. Kumaranasan, published in September 1922, set during the 1921 Malabar Rebellion, whose union of a Brahmin woman and a Pulaya man attacks the caste system.
Durendal
Durendal (Durandal, Durlindana), the legendary sword of Count Roland in the Song of Roland, first attested ca. 1100; famed as unbreakable, given Muslim-owner pre-histories in Aspremont and Mainet, with debated etymology.
Duryodhana (दुर्योधन)
Duryodhana (दुर्योधन), also called Suyodhana, eldest of the hundred Kaurava sons of Dhritarashtra in the Mahabharata; his jealousy, the dice game, and refusal of land cause the Kurukshetra War, ending in his mace duel with Bhima.
Dushyanta
Dushyanta (Duṣmanta, दुष्मन्त), Puru-dynasty king of the Mahabharata, husband of Shakuntala (शकुन्तला), father of Bharata; epic gandharva marriage retold with curse and ring in Kalidasa's play.
Düvaz
Düvaz, also known as düvaz-ı imam, is a genre of Alevi-Bektashi religious poetry naming the Twelve Imams in order and praising their virtues, recited in the cem ritual.
Dziady (poem)
Dziady (Forefathers' Eve) is Adam Mickiewicz's four-part romantic drama cycle, written 1820-1832 and built on a folk All Souls rite for summoning ancestral spirits; Parts II and IV appeared in 1823, Part III in 1832, and its 1968 ban in communist Poland sparked mass protests.
Eagle or Sun?
Eagle or Sun? (¿Águila o sol?) is a 1951 collection of prose poems by the Mexican writer and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, marking his turn to surrealism.
Easter, 1916
"Easter, 1916" is W. B. Yeats's poem on the Easter Rising of April 1916, his best-known political poem, famous for the refrain "A terrible beauty is born".
Eclogues
The Eclogues, also known as the Bucolica, are a collection of ten pastoral poems by the Roman poet Vergil, written during the civil wars of the late 40s BCE.
Edda
Edda (Eddur) names two medieval Icelandic books: the anonymous Poetic Edda of mythological and heroic poems (Codex Regius, c. 1270) and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda (c. 1220–1230), the fullest source for Norse mythology.
Edige
Edige (also Yedige or Edigu) is a Turkic heroic epic, or dastan, about Edigu, the emir who led the Golden Horde from 1395 to 1419 and founded the Nogai Horde.
Egyptian romantic school
The Egyptian romantic school (المدرسة الرومانسية المصرية), also called the Apollo School, was a poetic movement in 1930s and 1940s Egypt whose doctrine was Romanticism.
Eight Anthologies
The Eight Anthologies, or Ettuthokai, are a set of eight classical Tamil poetry anthologies that form the core of Sangam literature, dated roughly 300 BCE to 300 CE.
Eighteen Greater Texts
Eighteen Greater Texts (Patiṉeṇmēlkaṇakku, பதினெண்மேல்கணக்கு) is the Sangam-era Tamil corpus of 2,381 poems in the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) and Ten Idylls (Pattupattu), distinct from the later didactic Eighteen Lesser Texts.
Eighteen Lesser Texts
Eighteen Lesser Texts (Pathinen Keelkanakku) is a Tamil corpus of eighteen short post-Sangam works, mostly on ethics and love poetry, including the Thirukkural and Naladiyar.
Eighteen Stanzas for a Barbarian Reed Flute
Eighteen Stanzas for a Barbarian Reed Flute (Hujia Shibapai, 胡笳十八拍) is a Chinese poem and qin composition in eighteen sections attributed to Cai Yan, a Han dynasty woman writer.
Ekalavya (एकलव्य)
Ekalavya (एकलव्य), the Nishada prince of the Mahabharata, son of Hiranyadhanus, taught himself archery before a clay image of Drona and gave his right thumb as guru dakshina; later killed by Krishna, he is now a symbol in caste debates.
Eknath Gatha
Eknath Gatha (संत एकनाथ गाथा) is the collection of abhangs, or devotional verses, attributed to the sixteenth-century Marathi sant Eknath, a principal Varkari poet devoted to Vithoba.
Eknathi Bhagavata
Eknathi Bhagavat (एकनाथी भागवत) is a Marathi verse commentary by the 16th-century saint-poet Eknath of Paithan on the eleventh book of the Bhagavata Purana, one of the principal texts of the Varkari tradition.
El Bernardo
El Bernardo is a heroic epic poem by Bernardo de Balbuena, published in Madrid in 1624, narrating the deeds of Bernardo del Carpio at Roncesvalles.
El espejo de agua
El espejo de agua is a short poetry collection by the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro, published in Buenos Aires in 1916, whose "Arte poética" helped found creacionismo.