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Lyric poetry
Lyric poetry, from Greek lyrikos (lyre-accompanied song), is short personal verse expressing a speaker's feelings, contrasted with epic and drama; originating in 7th-century BCE Greece with Sappho and Pindar, and now covering odes, elegies, and sonnets.
Lyrical Ballads
Lyrical Ballads, the 1798 anonymous Bristol poetry collection by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched English Romanticism with 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere' and 'Tintern Abbey' and Wordsworth's 1800 Preface.
Lyrics of Lowly Life
Lyrics of Lowly Life is an 1896 poetry collection by Paul Laurence Dunbar, drawing mostly on his earlier books Oak and Ivy and Majors and Minors.
Mac Flecknoe
Mac Flecknoe is a mock-heroic verse satire by John Dryden, published in London in 1682, mocking the playwright Thomas Shadwell as heir to the throne of dullness.
Madhumalati
Madhumalati (मधुमालती, Madhumālatī) is a sixteenth-century Sufi romance in Hindavi by the poet Manjhan, composed around 1545. It tells of Prince Manohar's love for Princess Madhumalati as a spiritual path.
Madhushala
Madhushala (मधुशाला, "The Tavern") is a collection of 135 Hindi quatrains by Harivansh Rai Bachchan, first published in 1935 and a major work of the Chhayavad movement.
Madih nabawi
Madih nabawi, meaning prophetic praise, is the Arabic poetic genre of verses in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, whose canonical text is al-Busiri's 13th-century Burda.
Maduraikkanci
Maduraikkanci (மதுரைக்காஞ்சி) is a Tamil poem of the Sangam age, the sixth and longest of the Ten Idylls, composed by Māṅkuṭi Marutaṉār in praise of the Pandya king Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ.
Magdalana Mariam
Magdalana Mariam (മഗ്ദലനമറിയം) is a Malayalam khandakavyam, a short narrative poem by Vallathol Narayana Menon written in 1921, retelling Mary Magdalene's path from sin to repentance and credited with pioneering Christian symbolism in Malayalam poetry.
Mahabharata
Mahabharata (महाभारत), also Jaya or Bharata, the major Sanskrit epic of the Kaurava-Pandava war attributed to Vyasa, over 100,000 shlokas in 18 parvas, preserved in Northern and Southern recensions and reconstructed in the BORI Critical Edition.
Mahabharatam (Kilippattu)
Mahabharatam Kilippattu is a Malayalam verse retelling of the Sanskrit Mahabharata in the parrot-song kilippattu style by Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan, first printed complete in 1862.
Mahajatra
Mahajatra, also known as Mahayatra, is an unfinished Odia-language epic poem by Radhanath Ray, dated 1896. A reinvention of the Mahabharata, it ranks among the major kavyas of modern Odia poetry.
Mahakavya
Mahākāvya (महाकाव्य, "great poem"; also sargabandha) is a genre of Indian epic poetry in Classical Sanskrit, a long court epic in cantos, ruled by codified requirements.
Mahaprasthan
Mahaprasthan (મહાપ્રસ્થાન) is a 1965 collection of seven verse dramas by the Gujarati poet Umashankar Joshi, drawing episodes from the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the life of the Buddha.
Mahaprasthanam
Mahaprasthanam (మహాప్రస్థానం, "The Great Journey") is a landmark anthology of Telugu poems by Sri Sri, published in 1950 and treated as a manifesto of the progressive movement in Telugu letters.
Mahaprithibi
Mahaprithibi (মহাপৃথিবী, "The Great World") is a 1944 Bengali poetry collection by Jibanananda Das, his fourth book of verse, where critics see his poetic consciousness reach maturity.
Mahapurana
Mahapurana (महापुराण) is a 10th-century Apabhramsha Jain narrative epic by Pushpadanta, composed between 959 and 965 CE, retelling the lives of the 63 shalakapurushas of Jain tradition and ending with Mahavira's nirvana.
Mahaviracarita
Mahaviracarita (Mahāvīracarita, महावीरचरितम्; "The Deeds of the Great Hero") is a seven-act Sanskrit drama by the eighth-century poet-playwright Bhavabhūti, based on the early life of Rama of the Ramayana.
Mahbarot Immanuel
The Mahbarot, also known as Maḥbarot Immanuel, is a satirical collection of Hebrew verse and rhymed prose by Immanuel of Rome, containing the first sonnets written outside Italian.
Máj
Máj (Czech for "May") is a lyrical-epic poem by Czech Romantic poet Karel Hynek Mácha, self-published in 1836, telling a tragic story of love and betrayal and widely seen as a landmark of Czech poetry.
Makber
Makber (مقبر, "the grave") is a long 1885 elegiac poem by the Ottoman poet Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, mourning his wife Fatma Hanım, who died in Beirut.
Makhzan al-Asrar
Makhzan al-Asrar (مخزن الاسرار, "Treasury of Secrets") is a didactic and mystical Persian masnavi by Nizami Ganjavi, written around 1176 and the first poem of his Khamsa.
Malaipadukadam
Malaipadukadam (மலைபடுகடாம்), also known as Kuttarattruppadai, is a 583-line Sangam-era Tamil poem and the tenth of the ten Pattuppattu idylls, praising the hill chieftain Nannan and describing mountain life and music.
Malayalam literature
Malayalam literature (മലയാള സാഹിത്യം) is literature in Malayalam, Kerala's language: Pattu and Manipravalam traditions, Ezhuthachan, the 1889 novel Indulekha, modernism, Arabi-Malayalam, and classical-language status.
Malayavilasam
Malayavilasam (മലയവിലാസം) is a Malayalam poem composed by A. R. Rajaraja Varma (1863–1918), a poet and grammarian of Trivandrum, and is credited with marking the beginning of modern Malayalam poetry.
Malebolge
Malebolge is Dante's invented name for the eighth circle of Hell in the Inferno: ten concentric ditches (bolge) of iron-colored stone where ten classes of fraudulent sinners are punished, cantos XVIII-XXX.
Malke'
Malke'a (Ge'ez: መልክእ) is a genre of Ge'ez religious praise poetry in which each stanza greets one part of a holy figure's body, from head to toe.
Maltiempo
Maltiempo is a 1972 poetry collection by the Mexican poet Jaime Sabines, published in Mexico City, and includes the poem Doña Luz, dedicated to his mother.
Man of Earth
Man of Earth is a 1989 anthology of 330 Filipino poems written in English from 1905 to the mid-1950s, edited by Gémino H. Abad and Edna Zapanta-Manlapaz.
Man'yōshū (万葉集)
Man'yōshū (万葉集) is Japan's oldest extant waka anthology: 20 volumes, about 4,500 poems spanning 629–759, written in man'yōgana, compiled in stages with Ōtomo no Yakamochi's certain involvement, and later a model for the Kokinshū.