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Invictus
Invictus is William Ernest Henley's 1875 Victorian poem, written in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, published untitled in 1888 and titled by Quiller-Couch in 1900; famous for "master of my fate" and its link to Nelson Mandela.
Invocation of the Great Bear
Invocation of the Great Bear (Anrufung des Großen Bären) is a 1956 poetry collection by the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann, her second and final volume, published by Piper in Munich.
Iohannis
The Iohannis is an eight-book Latin epic by the sixth-century African poet Corippus, honoring the Byzantine general John Troglita and his campaigns against the Moors of North Africa.
Iraqi style
The Iraqi style (sabk-e ʿIrāqi, سبک عراقی) is a major stylistic period of classical Persian poetry, current from the twelfth to the fifteenth century and known for its lyrical ghazals.
Irás y no volverás
Irás y no volverás, Spanish for "You will go and not return," is a 1973 poetry collection by Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco, his fourth book of poems.
Iravan
Iravan (Aravan, அரவான்), also Koothandavar, is a Mahabharata figure, son of Arjuna and Ulupi, worshipped by Tamil transgender Aravani communities; his marriage and sacrifice are reenacted yearly at the 18-day Koovagam festival in Villupuram, Tamil Nadu.
Iroha (いろは)
Iroha (いろは, iroha uta) is a Heian-period Japanese pangram poem using all 47 kana once each, traditionally attributed to Kūkai but actually composed late 10th to mid-11th century; its iroha order was Japan's standard kana ordering until Meiji.
Irupatham Noottandinte Ithihasam
Irupatham Noottandinte Ithihasam ("The Epic of the Twentieth Century") is a Malayalam khandakavyam, a sectional long poem, written by Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri and first published in the Mathrubhumi weekly in August 1952.
Isang Dipang Langit
Isang Dipang Langit, meaning "A Stretch of Sky," is a Tagalog poem by Amado V. Hernandez, written in prison in 1952 and known for its vision of freedom.
Isfahani style
The Isfahani style (sabk-e Esfahani) is a proposed alternative name for the Persian poetry of the Safavid and Mughal era, usually called the Indian style.
Ishqnama (عشقنامه)
Ishqnama (عشقنامه, Book of Love) names several Persian and Urdu love poems: Wajid Ali Shah's 1849–50 Urdu verse autobiography in a unique illuminated Royal Collection manuscript, Hasan Dihlavi's 1301 Indo-Persian romance, and Ubayd Zakani's 14th-century Persian masnavi.
Iskandarnameh
Iskandarnameh, also Eskandar-nāma ("The Book of Alexander"), is the Persian Alexander romance, and most prominently the epic poem Nizami Ganjavi completed around 1200–1203 as the last of his Khamsa.
İstanbul'u Dinliyorum
İstanbul'u Dinliyorum, "I'm Listening to Istanbul," is a 1947 poem by Turkish poet Orhan Veli Kanık, known for describing Istanbul entirely through sound with eyes closed.
Isthmian Odes
The Isthmian Odes (Ἰσθμιονῖκαι) are a book of eight surviving victory odes by the Theban poet Pindar, composed in the fifth century BC for victors at the Isthmian Games held near Corinth in honor of Poseidon.
It's Nation Time
"It's Nation Time" is a phrase, poem, and 1972 album by American poet Amiri Baraka that became a rallying chant of the Black Nationalist movement in the early 1970s.
Italian chivalric poetry
Italian chivalric poetry is narrative verse, chiefly in ottava rima from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, recounting Carolingian, Arthurian, and Trojan knights, peaking with Boiardo and Ariosto.
Itihasa
Itihasa (इतिहास) is a Sanskrit term for a genre of narrative works about the past, meaning "thus it was"; the Ramayana and Mahabharata were both called itihasa.
Iwein
Iwein, formerly The Knight with the Lion, is a Middle High German Arthurian romance of about 8,166 verses by Hartmann von Aue, written around 1200.
Izibongo of Shaka
The Izibongo of Shaka (izibongo zikaShaka) are Zulu praise poems honoring Shaka kaSenzangakhona, founder of the Zulu kingdom, and among southern African oral literature's most studied texts.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki
Izumi Shikibu Nikki (和泉式部日記, The Diary of Izumi Shikibu) is a Heian-period Japanese prose work with waka poems recounting the love affair of poet Izumi Shikibu and Prince Atsumichi around 1003.
Jabberwocky
Jabberwocky, also "Jabberwock" poem, is Lewis Carroll's famous nonsense verse in Through the Looking-Glass (1871), known for portmanteau words like chortle and galumph, the vorpal blade, and its many translations.
Jadaka al-Ghayth
Jadaka al-Ghayth (جادك الغيث) is a famous Andalusian muwashshah by the Granadan poet Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib (1313–1374), still widely sung across the Arab world.
Jadis et naguère
Jadis et naguère is a poetry collection by the French poet Paul Verlaine, published in Paris by Léon Vanier in 1884 and containing "Art poétique".
Jagamohana Ramayana
The Jagamohana Ramayana (ଜଗମୋହନ ରାମାୟଣ), also known as the Dandi Ramayana after its meter, is an Odia retelling of the Ramayana composed by Balarama Dasa around AD 1500, a foundational work of Odia literature.
Jaimini Bharata
Jaimini Bharata (ಜೈಮಿನಿ ಭಾರತ) is a Kannada epic poem by the poet Lakshmisha, written around 1500, that retells Yudhishthira's horse sacrifice and was recited in villages through the Gamaka tradition.
Jambavan (जाम्बवान्)
Jambavan (जाम्बवान्, Jāmbavān), also Jambavanta, is the bear king of Hindu epic, minister of Sugriva in the Ramayana, awakener of Hanuman's powers, and later opponent of Krishna over the Syamantaka jewel.
Jan Nisar Akhtar
Jan Nisar Akhtar (جاں نثار اختر), born Syed Jaan Nisar Husain Rizvi (1914–1976), was a Gwalior-born Urdu poet of the Progressive Writers' Movement and Hindi film lyricist who wrote about 151 songs, won the 1976 Sahitya Akademi Award for Khaak-e-Dil, and fathered Javed Akhtar.
Jangar
Jangar, also known as Djangar, is a heroic oral epic of the Kalmyk and Oirat Mongols, centered on the warrior-king Jangar and the idealized land of Bumba.
Janmadine
Janmadine (জন্মদিনে, "On the Birthday") is a Bengali poetry collection of 29 poems by Rabindranath Tagore, written in 1941 and the last published in his lifetime.
Jarasandha (जरासंध)
Jarasandha (जरासंध), king of Magadha in the Mahabharata, son of Brihadratha, joined at birth from two halves by the rakshasi Jara. Captor of 86 kings for a Shiva sacrifice, enemy of Krishna, slain by Bhima at Girivraja before the Rajasuya.