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Five Great Epics
The Five Great Epics are five Tamil epic poems: Cilappatikāram, Manimekalai, Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi, Valayapathi, and Kundalakesi, mostly by Jain and Buddhist poets; two survive only in fragments.
Flamenca
Flamenca is an anonymous 13th-century Old Occitan romance of about 8,095 lines about a wife imprisoned by her jealous husband and rescued by a knight.
Flavian epic
Flavian epic is the Latin epic poetry written at Rome during the Flavian dynasty (69–96 CE): Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Statius' Thebaid and Achilleid, and Silius Italicus' Punica.
Florante at Laura
Florante at Laura (Pinagdaanang Buhay ni Florante at ni Laura sa Kahariang Albania) is an 1838 Tagalog awit by Francisco Balagtas, 399 dodecasyllabic quatrains, written in prison, never out of print, and read as veiled anti-colonial protest.
Flori de mucigai
Flori de mucigai is a 1931 volume of 25 poems by Romanian writer Tudor Arghezi, drawn from his detention at Văcărești prison and regarded as founding the aesthetics of ugliness in Romanian poetry.
Flucht und Verwandlung
Flucht und Verwandlung (Flight and Metamorphosis) is a 1959 poetry collection by Nelly Sachs, her fourth, written in Swedish exile and known for containing no commas; Sachs won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Flyting
Flyting: medieval poetic insult duel, from Old Norse senna and Lokasenna to Scottish makars (Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, 1508), related to modern rap battle; distinct from Turkish karşılaşma.
Folhas Caídas
Folhas Caídas ("Fallen Leaves") is a collection of lyric poems by the Portuguese Romantic writer Almeida Garrett, published anonymously in 1853 and reflecting his love affair with Rosa Montufar.
Footprints (poem)
"Footprints in the Sand" is a Christian allegorical poem about the Lord carrying the speaker through hardship. Authorship is disputed among Mary Stevenson (1936), Burrell Webb (1958), Carolyn Carty (1963), and Margaret Fishback Powers (1964), with litigation in 2008.
For the Union Dead
"For the Union Dead" is a free-verse poem by Robert Lowell, written for the 1960 Boston Arts Festival and published in 1964 as the title poem of his collection.
Fortepian Szopena
"Fortepian Szopena" ("Chopin's Piano") is a lyric poem by the Polish Romantic poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid, published in 1865 and inspired by Russian soldiers' destruction of Chopin's piano during the January Uprising.
Fortune favours the bold
Fortune favours the bold, also rendered fortune favours the brave, is a proverb stating luck helps the daring, with Latin roots in Terence's Phormio and Virgil's Aeneid.
Forward Prize for Best Collection
The Forward Prize for Best Collection is an annual £10,000 poetry award for the best collection published in the UK or Republic of Ireland, first awarded in 1992.
Forward Prizes for Poetry
The Forward Prizes for Poetry are annual awards for new poetry published in the United Kingdom and Ireland, first awarded in 1992 in four categories totaling £17,000.
Four Quartets
Four Quartets is T. S. Eliot's final cycle of four long poems, Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding, individually published 1936–1942 and collected in 1943, written in five-movement sonata form with a Beethoven string-quartet analogy.
Four Rhymes of Nostalgia
Four Rhymes of Nostalgia (乡愁四韵) is a 1974 poem in four stanzas by Taiwanese poet Yu Kwang-chung, the most often set to music of his works.
Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellany
The Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellany (四时田园杂兴, Sishi Tianyuan Zaxing) is a set of sixty quatrains on rural life by Southern Song poet Fan Chengda, written in 1186.
Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters
"Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters" ("Questions from a Worker Who Reads") is a 1935 poem by Bertolt Brecht asking who actually built the great cities and won the famous conquests.
Fragment
Fragment (Duanzhang, 断章) is a four-line poem written by Bian Zhilin in 1935 and collected in his volume Fish Eyes, among the most quoted poems of modern Chinese literature.
Fraszki
Fraszki is Jan Kochanowski's 1584 Kraków collection of about 300 short, witty Polish poems, written over nearly 25 years in three books, which gave the fraszka genre its name.
Frauendienst
The Frauendienst is a largely fictional Middle High German verse narrative of 1255 by Ulrich von Liechtenstein, presenting itself as his autobiography as a servant of ladies.
Frithiofs saga
Frithiofs saga is a Swedish narrative poem by the poet and bishop Esaias Tegnér, published complete in 1825, retelling a medieval Icelandic saga of Frithiof and Ingeborg in varied verse forms.
Frost, Red Nose
Frost, Red Nose (Мороз, Красный нос) is a narrative poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written in 1862–1863 about a peasant widow who freezes in a winter forest.
Fruit-Gathering
Fruit-Gathering is a 1916 collection of 86 poems by Rabindranath Tagore, translated into English prose verse mostly by the author himself and published by Macmillan, following the success of Gitanjali.
Fu on Contemplating the Mystery
Fu on Contemplating the Mystery (Sixuan fu, 思玄赋) is a long rhapsody by the Eastern Han poet Zhang Heng (78–139), describing an imaginary journey through the heavens.
Fu on Returning to the Fields
Fu on Returning to the Fields (Gui tian fu, 歸田賦) is a short lyric fu by the Eastern Han writer Zhang Heng, composed in 138 CE expressing a wish for rural retirement.
Fu on the Goddess
Fu on the Goddess (Shennü fu, 神女赋) is a Chinese rhapsody attributed to Song Yu describing a Chu king's dream encounter with the goddess of Mount Wu.
Fu on the Great Man
Fu on the Great Man (Daren fu, 大人赋) is a sao-style rhapsody by Western Han poet Sima Xiangru, written for Emperor Wu as a veiled admonition against seeking immortality.
Fu on the Imperial Park
Fu on the Imperial Park (Shanglin fu) is a monumental rhapsody by the Western Han poet Sima Xiangru, written for Emperor Wu, celebrating the Shanglin imperial hunting park.
Fu on the Owl
Fu on the Owl (鵩鳥賦) is a short fu poem by the Han writer Jia Yi, written in Changsha after an owl, a death omen, flew into his lodgings.