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Koroghlu
Koroghlu (Köroğlu; also Görogly, Gurughli) is an early-17th-century Turkic folk hero and poet whose epic cycle, told in at least 17 versions, spread from Anatolia across Central Asia.
Kosovo Cycle
The Kosovo cycle (Косовски циклус) is a cycle of Serbian oral epic folk poems about the Battle of Kosovo of 1389, forming the central section of Serbian epic poetry.
Kot w pustym mieszkaniu
"Kot w pustym mieszkaniu" ("Cat in an Empty Apartment") is a poem by the Polish Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska, spoken by a cat whose owner has died.
Koti Brahmanda Sundari
Koti Brahmanda Sundari (କୋଟି ବ୍ରହ୍ମାଣ୍ଡ ସୁନ୍ଦରୀ) is a long Odia narrative poem by the poet Upendra Bhanja, narrating the love and marriage of a princess with prince Pushpaketu of Pataliputra.
Kozy Korpesh and Bayan Sulu
Kozy Korpesh and Bayan Sulu (Қозы Көрпеш – Баян сұлу) is a Kazakh lyric-epic love poem, sung from the 13th–14th centuries and compared to Romeo and Juliet.
Krákumál
Krákumál is an anonymous Old Norse skaldic poem of twenty-nine stanzas, presented as the death song of the Viking leader Ragnarr loðbrók, dying in a snake pit.
Krandasi
Krandasi (ক্রন্দসী), a Bengali word meaning a weeping woman, is a 1937 collection of poetry by Sudhindranath Datta and a central work of Bengali modernist verse.
Krawang-Bekasi
Krawang-Bekasi is a 1948 poem by the Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar, spoken by dead independence fighters lying between Karawang and Bekasi, West Java; an adaptation of Archibald MacLeish.
Kripa (कृप)
Kripa (कृप, Kripacharya), Brahmin warrior in the Mahabharata: son of sage Sharadvan, twin of Kripi, first teacher of the Kuru princes, Kaurava fighter, one of three Kaurava survivors of the Kurukshetra war, later teacher of Parikshit and one of the Chiranjivi immortals.
Krishna bhakti poetry
Krishna bhakti poetry (कृष्ण भक्ति काव्य) is the body of devotional verse centered on the Hindu deity Krishna, flourishing in medieval Hindi and its Braj Bhasha dialect.
Krishnagatha
Krishnagatha (കൃഷ്ണഗാഥ), also called Krishnappattu or simply Cherussery, is a Malayalam narrative poem on the life of Krishna, composed by Cherusseri Namboothiri in the court of Kolathunadu around 1475 in simple Malayalam in the manjari meter.
Krishnakarnamrita
Krishnakarnamrita (Kṛṣṇakarṇāmṛta, "nectar for Krishna's ears") is a medieval Sanskrit devotional poem of short ardent verses praising the youthful Krishna, ascribed to the poet Bilvamaṅgala, also called Līlāśuka, and cherished across India, especially in Bengal.
Krishnakumari
Krishnakumari (কৃষ্ণকুমারী) is a Bengali verse play by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, completed in 1860, the first successful Bengali tragedy and the first Bengali play on a historical theme.
Krittivasi Ramayan
The Krittivasi Ramayan (কৃত্তিবাসী রামায়ণ), also known as Sriram Panchali, is the first Bengali translation of the Ramayana, composed by Krittibas Ojha in the 14th or 15th century.
Krótka rozprawa między trzema osobami, Panem, Wójtem a Plebanem
Krótka rozprawa is a satirical verse dialogue by the Polish Renaissance writer Mikołaj Rej, printed in Kraków in 1543, debating a nobleman, a peasant, and a priest.
Krvavé sonety
Krvavé sonety (The Bloody Sonnets) is a cycle of 32 anti-war sonnets by the Slovak poet Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, written after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
Kshanika
Khanika (ক্ষণিকা), meaning "a moment", is a Bengali poetry book by Rabindranath Tagore, published in 1900, containing 59 poems that celebrate life's fleeting moments, composed at Shilaidaha.
Kubla Khan
Kubla Khan, or A Vision in a Dream, is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, composed around 1797, published in 1816, and imagining the pleasure-dome of Kubla Khan at Xanadu.
Kuchelavrutham
Kuchelavrutham (കുചേലവൃത്തം, "the deeds of Kuchela") is a celebrated Malayalam boat song by the eighteenth-century poet Ramapurathu Warrier, telling how Krishna granted his poor friend Kuchela wealth, and also a Kathakali play on the same story.
Kudrun
Kudrun, also Gudrun, is an anonymous Middle High German heroic epic of 1,705 stanzas, composed around 1230/40 in the Bavarian-Austrian region, telling of three generations whose bridal quests and abductions end in reconciliation rather than revenge.
Kuliyat-e-Mahjoor
Kuliyat-e-Mahjoor (کلیاتِ مہجور), the collected works of Mahjoor, gathers the Kashmiri poetry of Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor (1887 to 1952), Kashmir's national poet, in a standard 1984 edition.
Kulliyat
Kulliyat (کلیات) is a compiled collection of a poet's complete works in Urdu and Persian literature, gathering multiple books rather than one diwan, as in Kulliyat-e-Iqbal.
Kulliyat of Urfi Shirazi
The Kulliyat of Urfi Shirazi (کلیات عرفی) is the collected works of Persian poet Urfi Shirazi (1555–1591), a founder of the Indian style of Persian poetry.
Kulliyat-e-Nazeer
Kulliyat-e-Nazeer is the collected works of Nazeer Akbarabadi, the eighteenth-century Agra poet regarded as Urdu's first popular, or awami, poet, gathered after his death in 1830.
Külvárosi éj
Külvárosi éj, meaning "Night on the Outskirts," is a 1932 poem by Hungarian poet József Attila, title poem of his fifth collection and one of his best-known works.
Kumara Sambhavamu
Kumara Sambhavamu ("The Birth of Kumara") is a Telugu epic poem by the 11th- or 12th-century poet Nannechoda, regarded as the first mahakavya in Telugu literature.
Kumara Vyasa Bharata
Kumara Vyasa Bharata, formally titled Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari and also called Gadugina Bharata, is a 15th-century Kannada epic retelling the first ten parvas of the Mahabharata.
Kumarasambhava
Kumarasambhava is a Sanskrit court epic by Kalidasa about the courtship of Shiva and Parvati and the birth of their son, the war god Kumara.
Kumarasambhavam
Kumarasambhavam (కుమారసంభవము, "the birth of Kumara") is a Telugu adaptation of Kalidasa's Sanskrit epic, attributed to the 12th- or 13th-century poet Nannechodadeva and printed in 1909.
Kumbhakarna (कुम्भकर्ण)
Kumbhakarna (कुम्भकर्ण), giant rakshasa brother of Ravana in the Ramayana, cursed with months-long sleep and insatiable hunger; woken for the war against Rama, recast by Kamban as a tragic hero, and read medically as hypothalamic obesity.