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Gita Govinda
Gita Govinda (गीत गोविन्द), also Gitagovinda, is a 12th-century Sanskrit lyric poem by Jayadeva on the love of Radha and Krishna, in 12 chapters and 24 ashtapadi songs, sung nightly at Puri's Jagannath temple and central to Odissi dance and Indian painting traditions.
Gitanjali (গীতাঞ্জলি)
Gitanjali (গীতাঞ্জলি), or Song Offerings, is Rabindranath Tagore's 1910 Bengali collection of 157 devotional songs; its 1912 English self-translation of 103 prose poems, introduced by W. B. Yeats, won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Gitavali
Gitavali is a sixteenth-century Hindi song-cycle by the poet Tulsidas, retelling the whole story of Rama as devotional songs in Braj Bhasha, divided into seven kands like his epic Ramcharitmanas.
Gitimalya
Gitimalya (গীতিমাল্য), meaning "garland of songs", is a 1914 collection of Bengali songs and poems by Rabindranath Tagore whose poems fed the English Song Offerings and formed a trilogy with Gitanjali and Gitali.
Give Back the Human
"Give Back the Human" (Ningen o kaese) is the prelude of Tōge Sankichi's 1951 Poems of the Atomic Bomb, written from his own experience of the Hiroshima bombing.
Glaura
Glaura is a 1799 book of erotic lyric poems by the Brazilian Arcadian poet Silva Alvarenga, with 59 rondós and 56 madrigals on the shepherd Alcindo's elusive beloved.
Glossă
Glossă is a philosophical poem by Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, written in the fixed glossa form and built on antinomic pairs like death and birth.
Goblin Market
Goblin Market (1859, published 1862) is a narrative poem by Christina Rossetti about sisters Laura and Lizzie tempted by goblin fruit vendors. Its best-known aspect is its ambiguity, sustaining religious, sexual, feminist, economic, and colonial readings.
Góc sân và khoảng trời
Góc sân và khoảng trời ("The Corner of the Yard and the Stretch of Sky") is a 1968 Vietnamese poetry collection by Trần Đăng Khoa.
God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children
"God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children" is a 1955 poem by the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, in which God's mercy fades with age, from children to adults.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a 1927 collection of poems by James Weldon Johnson that renders the traditional African American folk preacher in verse.
Gokula Nirgamana
Gokula Nirgamana (ಗೋಕುಲ ನಿರ್ಗಮನ) is a 1945 Kannada song-play by the poet P. T. Narasimhachar that dramatizes Krishna and Balarama leaving Gokula for Mathura and the grief of Radha and the gopis left behind.
Göl Saatleri
Göl Saatleri, the first poetry collection of the Turkish poet Ahmet Haşim (1887–1933), was published in Istanbul in 1921 and is regarded as a founding work of modern Turkish poetry.
Golpitha
Golpitha (गोलपिठा) is the first poetry collection of the Marathi Dalit poet Namdeo Dhasal, published in the early 1970s and named after the Bombay red-light district where he grew up.
Gora Badal ki Katha
Gora Badal ki Katha (गोरा बादल की कथा) is a Hindi narrative poem by Jatmal Nahar, composed in 1623 and counted among the first works in Khari Boli.
Gorakh Bani
Gorakh Bani (गोरखबानी), "the sayings of Gorakh," is a compilation of Old Hindi texts by and about the Nāth yogis, edited by Pitambar Datt Barthwal in the mid-twentieth century.
Gosen Wakashū
Gosen Wakashū (後撰和歌集), often abbreviated Gosenshū, is the second imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry, ordered by Emperor Murakami in 951 and holding about 1,425 poems.
Goshūi Wakashū
Goshūi Wakashū (後拾遺和歌集, Later Collected Gleanings), also read Goshūishū, is the fourth imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry, presented to Emperor Shirakawa's throne in 1086.
Gozan literature
Gozan literature (五山文学, Gozan bungaku) is the Chinese-language poetry and prose written by Zen monks of Japan's Kyoto and Kamakura Five Mountains temples, chiefly from the late 13th to the 17th centuries.
Grandeza mexicana
Grandeza mexicana (Mexican Greatness) is a long descriptive poem by Bernardo de Balbuena, published in Mexico City in 1604, celebrating the capital of New Spain.
Grandfather Mazai and the Hares
Grandfather Mazai and the Hares (Дедушка Мазай и зайцы) is a narrative poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written in 1870, in which an old hunter rescues hares during a spring flood.
Grażyna
Grażyna is an 1823 classicist epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz in which the duchess Grażyna, disguised as a man, leads Lithuania's army against the Teutonic Order.
Greek Anthology
The Greek Anthology (Anthologia Graeca) is the largest surviving collection of short Greek poems, chiefly epigrams, assembled by Byzantine compilers such as Constantine Cephalas around 900.
Green Grapes
"Green Grapes" (Cheongpodo) is a 1939 poem by the Korean resistance poet Yi Yuk-sa, first published in the magazine Munjang, that uses ripening grapes as a symbol of national renewal.
Grendel
Grendel is the Cain-descended monster of the Old English epic Beowulf, who terrorizes the hall Heorot for twelve years before Beowulf kills him bare-handed; also the subject of John Gardner's 1971 novel.
Grendel's mother
Grendel's mother, or Grendles modor in Old English, is the second monster Beowulf fights in Beowulf, avenging her son Grendel. The disputed epithet ides aglæc-wif ('monster-woman' or 'warrior-woman'), her feminist reappraisal, and modern adaptations distinguish the character.
Griffin Poetry Prize
The Griffin Poetry Prize is a set of annual Canadian literary awards for first-edition poetry collections in English, founded in 2000 by Scott Griffin, Margaret Atwood, and others.
Grodek
"Grodek" is a war poem by the Austrian poet Georg Trakl, written in September 1914 after the battle of Grodek in Galicia and regarded as his last poem.
Grottasöngr
Grottasöngr is an Old Norse poem about the giant maidens Fenja and Menja, enslaved by King Fróði to grind gold at the magic mill Grotti until they grind his destruction.
Guardián de la caída de la noche
Guardián de la caída de la noche, known in Spanish as Guardián de la caída de agua, is a 1993 poetry collection by the K'iche' Maya poet Humberto Ak'abal.