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La bufera e altro
La bufera e altro is a 1956 poetry collection by the Italian poet Eugenio Montale, his third book after Ossi di seppia and Le occasioni, centered on the war years.
La cautiva
La cautiva is a long narrative poem by the Argentine writer Esteban Echeverría, published in 1837 and considered the initial moment of Romanticism in the Río de la Plata.
La Chanson du mal-aimé
La Chanson du mal-aimé is a long lyric poem by Guillaume Apollinaire, first published in 1909 and included in Alcools in 1913, expressing the grief of an abandoned lover.
La Chastelaine de Vergi
La Chastelaine de Vergi, also known as La Châtelaine de Vergy, is an anonymous Old French verse romance of the mid-13th century, about a secret love affair whose exposure destroys everyone.
La destrucción o el amor
La destrucción o el amor (Destruction or Love) is a 1935 poetry collection by Vicente Aleixandre, a Spanish Generation of '27 poet and 1977 Nobel laureate.
La duquesa Job
"La duquesa Job" is an 1884 poem by Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera depicting a young urban woman in Porfirian Mexico City, often called the first Mexican modernist poem.
La estación violenta
La estación violenta is a 1958 poetry collection by Octavio Paz, published in Mexico by Fondo de Cultura Económica, gathering nine poems written between 1948 and 1957.
La Fin de Satan
La Fin de Satan (The End of Satan) is an unfinished epic poem in alexandrine verse by Victor Hugo, written in exile from 1854 and published posthumously in 1886.
La Galigo
La Galigo, also known as Sureq Galigo, is a Bugis epic cycle from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, of pre-Islamic oral roots from about the 14th century.
La Jeune Captive
La Jeune Captive is an elegy by the French poet André Chénier, written in 1794 at Saint-Lazare prison and inspired by his fellow prisoner Aimée de Coigny.
La Jeune Parque
La Jeune Parque is a long French poem by Paul Valéry, published in 1917: 512 alexandrine verses that ended his twenty-year silence and made him the leading French poet.
La Légende des siècles
La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Centuries) is a poetry collection by Victor Hugo retelling human history in verse, published in installments between 1859 and 1883.
La libertà
La libertà is a canzonetta written by the Italian poet Pietro Metastasio in 1733, addressed to a woman named Nice and celebrating the poet's liberation from the bonds of love.
La muerte del cisne
La muerte del cisne (The Death of the Swan) is a 1915 book of poems by the Mexican poet Enrique González Martínez, published in Mexico City.
La Pléiade
La Pléiade was a group of mid-sixteenth-century French Renaissance poets led by Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim Du Bellay, who sought to elevate the French language.
La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jeanne de France
La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jeanne de France is a 1913 free-verse poem by Blaise Cendrars, published in Paris as an artist's book designed by Sonia Delaunay.
La realidad y el deseo
La realidad y el deseo (The Reality and the Desire) is the complete poetry of Spanish poet Luis Cernuda, first published in Madrid in 1936 and expanded to 1964.
La secchia rapita
La secchia rapita ("The stolen bucket") is a mock-heroic poem by Alessandro Tassoni, first published in Paris in 1621, about a war between Bologna and Modena over a stolen wooden bucket.
La suave patria
La suave patria is a 1921 poem by Mexican poet Ramón López Velarde, written for the centenary of Mexican independence and published after his death that June.
La Tristesse d'Olympio
La Tristesse d'Olympio is an elegy by Victor Hugo, written in October 1837 after revisiting the Bièvre valley with Juliette Drouet and published in 1840.
La Vie de saint Alexis
La Vie de saint Alexis, also called the Chanson de saint Alexis, is a mid-eleventh-century Old French hagiographic poem and one of the earliest monuments of French literature.
Laberinto de Fortuna
Laberinto de Fortuna, also known as Las Trescientas, is an allegorical-narrative poem in Castilian completed in 1444 by Juan de Mena for King Juan II of Castile.
Labyrinths
Labyrinths is the first collected edition of the poetry of the Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo, published by Heinemann in 1971, containing the sequence Path of Thunder.
Lacustră
Lacustră is a 1903 poem by the Romanian symbolist poet George Bacovia, first published in Viața nouă and collected in his debut volume Plumb in 1916, its image of a dwelling on water symbolizing isolation.
Ladera este
Ladera este is a 1969 poetry collection by the Mexican writer Octavio Paz, composed between 1962 and 1968 during his service as Mexico's ambassador to India and closing with the long poem Blanco.
Lady Anne
Lady Anne is a 1989 epic poem in Afrikaans by the South African poet Antjie Krog, her seventh volume, using the life of Lady Anne Barnard at the Cape.
Lady Lazarus
"Lady Lazarus" is a confessional poem by Sylvia Plath, written in October 1962 and first published in her 1965 collection Ariel, about a woman rising from death.
Lagar
Lagar is a 1954 poetry collection by the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, her fourth book and the last published in her lifetime, and the only one first published in Chile.
Lais of Marie de France
The Lais of Marie de France are twelve narrative poems in Anglo-Norman French composed around 1160, the earliest known secular writing by a woman in medieval Europe.
Lakshmana (लक्ष्मण)
Lakshmana (लक्ष्मण, Lakshman/Laxman) is Rama's younger half-brother in the Ramayana, son of Dasaratha and Sumitra, twin of Shatrughna, husband of Urmila, who follows Rama into exile, fights Indrajit, and is linked to the Lakshmana Rekha episode.