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Alexander Tvardovsky
Alexander Tvardovsky (1910–1971) was a Soviet poet and journalist best known for the folk-epic war poem Vasily Tyorkin and for editing the journal Novy Mir.
Alexandreis
The Alexandreis is a Latin epic poem in ten books by Walter of Châtillon, written in the 1170s, telling the life and deeds of Alexander the Great.
Alfabet
Alfabet is a 1981 long poem by the Danish poet Inger Christensen, whose fourteen sections from A to N grow along the Fibonacci sequence while cataloging nature and nuclear threat.
Algo sobre la muerte del mayor Sabines
Algo sobre la muerte del mayor Sabines is a long elegiac poem by the Mexican poet Jaime Sabines about the illness, death, and funeral of his father, a military officer of the Mexican Revolution.
Alguma Poesia
Alguma Poesia is the first book of poems by the Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, published in 1930 and containing "No meio do caminho" and "Poema de sete faces".
Allama Prabhu's Vachanas
Allama Prabhu's Vachanas (ಅಲ್ಲಮ ಪ್ರಭು) are free-verse Kannada mystical poems by Allama Prabhu, a twelfth-century Shaiva saint-poet of the sharana movement in Karnataka, signed with the epithet Guheshwara.
Allie Esiri
Allie Esiri, British poetry anthologist and former actress (Allie Byrne), creator of the A Poem for Every Day/Night of the Year series, the iF Poems and Love Book apps, and National Theatre poetry shows.
Alma América
Alma América is a 1906 poetry collection by the Peruvian poet José Santos Chocano, published in Madrid and considered the central book of his career and a landmark of Peruvian modernismo.
Alpamysh
Alpamysh (Uzbek: Alpomish) is a Turkic heroic dastan, an ornate oral epic whose versions belong to Uzbek, Karakalpak, and Kazakh traditions and holds a place in Uzbek culture like a national epic.
Altazor
Altazor, full title Altazor o el viaje en paracaídas, is a long poem in seven cantos by the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro, published in Madrid in 1931.
Aluda Ketelauri
Aluda Ketelauri (ალუდა ქეთელაური) is an 1888 epic poem by Georgian poet Vazha-Pshavela about a Khevsur warrior who refuses the custom of cutting off his slain enemy's hand.
Amal'ezulu
Amal'ezulu (Zulu Horizons) is a 1945 collection of isiZulu poems by Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, expressing longing for his rural home and the suffering of black gold miners.
Amarushataka
The Amarushataka (Amaruśatakam) is a Sanskrit anthology of about a hundred lyric verses on love attributed to the poet Amaru, the classic Sanskrit erotic lyric work.
Amba (Mahabharata)
Amba (अंबा) is a princess of Kashi in the Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata, abducted by Bhishma and reborn as the warrior Shikhandi to cause his fall at Kurukshetra.
Ambalamani
Ambalamani (അമ്പലമണി, "temple bell") is a 1981 Malayalam poetry collection by Sugathakumari, published by D.C. Books, whose title poem is a staple of Kerala school syllabi and which won the Odakkuzhal, Asan, and Vayalar awards.
Ambarvalia
Ambarvalia is the first Japanese-language poetry collection by modernist poet Nishiwaki Junzaburō, published in Tokyo in 1933 and considered a landmark of modern Japanese poetry.
América poética
América poética is an anthology of Spanish-American poetry compiled by Juan María Gutiérrez and printed in Valparaíso, Chile, in 1846, the first to gather poetry from across Spanish America.
American poetry
American poetry: verse of the United States from 1610 colonial beginnings through the nineteenth century, Eliot, and the postwar anti-tradition to today's diverse, prize-supported scene, marked by openness to outside traditions and formal reinvention.
Amers
Amers, translated as Seamarks, is a long poem in French by Saint-John Perse, published by Gallimard in Paris in 1957 and organized around the theme of the sea.
Amir Khusrau
Amir Khusrau (Amir Khusrow Dehlavi, 1253–1325), the 'Parrot of India,' was a Delhi Sultanate Persian and Hindavi poet, Sufi disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya, author of the first Persian Khamsa, and figure credited with founding qawwali.
Amiraniani
Amiraniani (ამირანიანი) is the conventional name for the cycle of Georgian folk tales about the hero Amirani, dating to around the end of the 2nd millennium BC.
Among School Children
"Among School Children" is a 1928 poem by W. B. Yeats from The Tower, about aging and love, ending "How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
Amores
The Amores is a collection of Latin love elegies in three books by the Roman poet Ovid, his first completed work, about a lover and his mistress Corinna.
Amrutanubhav
Amrutanubhav (अमृतानुभव), also called Anubhavamrut, is a 13th-century independent philosophical poem in Marathi by the saint-poet Dnyaneshwar, setting out his experience of nonduality through the unity of Shiva and Shakti.
An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow is a 47-line free-verse poem by Les Murray, first published in 1969, in which a man weeps openly in Sydney's Martin Place.
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English is a 1997 anthology edited by Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, and Mark Williams, published by Oxford University Press in Auckland.
An Arundel Tomb
"An Arundel Tomb" is a 1956 poem by Philip Larkin about the 14th-century hand-holding tomb of the Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster in Chichester Cathedral.
An die Parzen
An die Parzen ("To the Fates") is a twelve-line Alcaic ode by Friedrich Hölderlin, first printed in 1799, asking the Fates for one summer and autumn to finish a poem before death.
An Essay on Criticism
An Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope's heroic-couplet poem on literary judgment, written 1709, published by W. Lewis, London, 1711; modeled on Horace's Ars Poetica, in three parts, source of famous maxims like "To err is human."
An Essay on Man
An Essay on Man is a philosophical poem in heroic couplets by Alexander Pope, published in four epistles from 1732 to 1734 and addressed to Lord Bolingbroke.