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Les Échecs amoureux
Les Échecs amoureux (Les Eschés amoureux, "The Amorous Chess Game") is a long Old French allegorical poem of about 30,000 verses, written around 1370 to 1380.
Les Fleurs du mal
Les Fleurs du mal, also known as the poetry collection French for "The Flowers of Evil," is by Charles Baudelaire, first published in 1857 and condemned for moral outrage.
Les Nuits
Les Nuits is a cycle of four poems by Alfred de Musset, written between 1835 and 1837 and inspired by his rupture with George Sand.
Les Orientales
Les Orientales is a collection of 41 poems by Victor Hugo, published in January 1829, evoking an imagined Mediterranean Orient and marking a breakthrough in his poetic innovation.
Les Quatre Fils Aymon
Les Quatre Fils Aymon, also known as Renaut de Montauban, is an Old French chanson de geste about Renaud and his brothers, persecuted by Charlemagne.
Les Rayons et les Ombres
Les Rayons et les Ombres ("Beams and Shadows") is a lyric poetry collection by Victor Hugo, published in Paris in 1840 and containing some of his best-known poems.
Les Regrets
Les Regrets is a 1558 collection of 191 sonnets by the French Renaissance poet Joachim Du Bellay, expressing homesickness for Anjou and disillusionment with Rome.
Les Tragiques
Les Tragiques is an epic poem in seven books by the French Protestant writer and soldier Agrippa d'Aubigné, first published anonymously in 1616 after roughly forty years of composition.
Les Voix intérieures
Les Voix intérieures is a collection of 32 poems by Victor Hugo, published in Paris by Eugène Renduel in 1837, the fourth of his great lyric collections.
Les Yeux d'Elsa
Les Yeux d'Elsa is a 1942 collection of 21 poems by the French writer Louis Aragon, dedicated to his wife Elsa Triolet, that became a central work of the French Resistance.
Letters to Martha
Letters to Martha: And Other Poems from a South African Prison is a 1968 poetry collection by Dennis Brutus, written during and after his imprisonment on Robben Island under apartheid.
Leyendas mexicanas
Leyendas mexicanas is an 1862 book of narrative verse by the Mexican writer, journalist, and historian José María Roa Bárcena, published in Mexico City, collecting legendary tales, northern European ballads, and miscellaneous poems.
Liangdu Fu
Liangdu Fu (两都赋, "Rhapsody on the Two Capitals") is a pair of rhapsodies by Ban Gu defending Luoyang over Chang'an as capital, opening the capital fu genre.
Liangzhou Song
The Liangzhou Song, also Liangzhou Ci or Chusai, is a pair of seven-character quatrains by Tang poet Wang Zhihuan, whose famous first poem laments frontier soldiers at Yumen Pass.
Liber Medicinalis
Liber Medicinalis, also known as De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima, is a Latin didactic poem of about 1,100 hexameters offering remedies for ailments, attributed to Quintus Serenus.
Libertad bajo palabra
Libertad bajo palabra is a book by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz that gathers his poetry from 1935 to 1957 and closes with the long poem Piedra de sol.
Libertinagem
Libertinagem is a 1930 book of poems by Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira, his fourth collection and first entirely modernist, gathering 38 poems in free verse and colloquial language.
Libro de Alexandre
The Libro de Alexandre is an anonymous thirteenth-century Castilian epic poem narrating the fictionalized life and conquests of Alexander the Great, and the first work of the mester de clerecía school.
Lição de Coisas
Lição de coisas is a 1962 book of poems by Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, his fullest experiment with form under the provocations of Concretismo.
Lider fun geto
Lider fun geto (לידער פון געטאָ; Poems of the Ghetto) is a 1946 Yiddish poetry collection by Abraham Sutzkever, gathering poems written in the Vilna Ghetto under German occupation.
Life Studies
Life Studies is a 1959 poetry collection by Robert Lowell, regarded as the starting point of confessional poetry, a term critic M. L. Rosenthal coined in his review.
Like the Molave
Like the Molave is a 1940 patriotic poem by Filipino poet Rafael Zulueta da Costa, which won first prize for poetry at the 1940 Commonwealth Literary Awards.
Lilit Phra Lo
Lilit Phra Lo (ลิลิตพระลอ) is a Thai narrative poem of the Ayutthaya period retelling the northern legend of Phra Lo, whose love for the princesses Phuean and Phaeng ends tragically.
Lilit Taleng Phai
Lilit Taleng Phai (ลิลิตตะเลงพ่าย) is a Thai epic panegyric poem by Prince Paramanuchit Chinorot of the Third Reign, celebrating King Naresuan's victory in the 1592 elephant duel.
Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman
Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman is an 1885 narrative poem in five books by American poet Ada Langworthy Collier, retelling the rabbinic legend of Adam's first wife sympathetically, linking her name to the word lullaby.
Limerick (poetry)
Limerick (poetry): a five-line English comic verse form, AABBA rhyme, anapestic rhythm, three stresses on lines 1, 2, 5 and two on 3, 4; first printed 1820, popularized by Edward Lear's 1846 A Book of Nonsense.
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (施氏食狮史)
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (施氏食狮史, Shī Shì shí shī shǐ) is a Classical Chinese homophonic text by linguist Yuen Ren Chao, every syllable read shi in Mandarin; drafted by Hu Mingfu in 1916, revised in the 1950s, and printed in Britannica in 1960.
Lipika
Lipika (লিপিকা) is a 1922 collection of short prose pieces by Rabindranath Tagore, where he experimented with prose poetry in Bengali through prose poems, allegories, and sketches.
Lira dos Vinte Anos
Lira dos Vinte Anos is a book of poetry by Brazilian poet Álvares de Azevedo, published posthumously in 1853 and regarded as a central work of ultrarromantismo.
Lira Paulistana
Lira Paulistana is the name of Mário de Andrade's final poetry book, published in 1945, and of an avant-garde theater in São Paulo's Pinheiros district that took its name.