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Nakshi Kanthar Math
Nakshi Kanthar Math (নকশী কাঁথার মাঠ, "The Field of the Embroidered Quilt") is a 1929 Bengali narrative poem by Jasimuddin about the tragic love of villagers Rupai and Saju.
Nakula (नकुल)
Nakula (नकुल), one of the five Pandava twins with Sahadeva in the Mahabharata, son of Madri and the Asvins; a horseman famed for beauty and swordsmanship, serving as Granthika in Virata's court.
Nalachampu
Nalachampu (नलचम्पू), also known as Damayantīkathā or Damayantīcampū, is a Sanskrit champu mixing prose and verse, written by Trivikrama Bhaṭṭa in the early tenth century.
Nalacharitam
Nalacharitam (നളചരിതം) is a four-part Kathakali play text written in the late 17th or early 18th century by Unnayi Warrier, dramatizing the Nala-Damayanti story from the Mahabharata.
Naladiyar
Naladiyar (நாலடியார்), also called Naladi Nanuru, is a Tamil ethical anthology of 400 four-line quatrains in venba meter, attributed to Jain ascetics and ranked next to the Tirukkural among moral texts.
Nalakhyan
Nalakhyan (નળાખ્યાન) is the title of several medieval Gujarati narrative poems telling the Mahabharata story of King Nala and Damayanti, the most famous composed by Premanand in 1686.
Nalan Ci
Nalan Ci (纳兰词) is the collected ci poetry of Nalan Xingde, a Manchu aristocrat of the early Qing dynasty, praised for its sincerity and mournful love poems.
Nalini
Nalini, or Oru Sneham, is a 1911 Malayalam khandakavya, or short narrative poem, by Kumaran Asan, depicting a love that transcends physical desire toward the union of two souls.
Namdevachi Gatha
Namdevachi Gatha (नामदेव गाथा), also called the Namdev Gatha, is the collected Marathi devotional verse of the Varkari sant Namdev of Maharashtra, a foundational text of Marathi sant literature.
Namghosa
Namghosa (নামঘোষা), also known as Hazari Ghosa, is the principal devotional verse text of Assamese Vaishnavism. Composed by Madhavadeva between 1568 and 1596, its 1,001 verses praise Krishna and teach chanting God's name.
Nänie
Nänie (also Nanie) is an elegiac poem by Friedrich Schiller, published around 1800, mourning the transience of beauty and best known through Brahms's choral setting of 1881.
Nanshe Congke
Nanshe Congke (南社叢刻, Nanshe Congkan) was the official organ of the Nanshe literary society, publishing members' poetry, prose, and ci lyrics in 22 collections from 1910 to 1923.
Napis
Napis ("Inscription") is the fourth poetry volume by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, published in Warsaw in 1969 and closing the first phase of his career.
Naqsh-e-Faryadi
Naqsh-e-Faryadi (نقشِ فریادی), the first poetry collection of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, was published in 1941 and blends romantic lyricism with early political consciousness.
Narasimha Satakamu
Narasimha Satakamu (నరసింహ శతకము) is an 18th-century Telugu devotional sataka of about 100 verses addressed to the god Narasimha, composed by the poet Kakutthsa Seshappa Kavi of Dharmapuri in Telangana.
Narrative poetry
Narrative poetry, also called verse narrative, is poetry that tells a story, one of the oldest poetic forms. Its main subtypes are epic and ballad, with courtly romance a medieval development.
Narrinai
Narrinai (நற்றிணை), also called Naṟṟiṇai Nāṉūṟu, is a classical Tamil anthology of 400 love poems, one of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) of Sangam literature, conventionally dated to roughly 300 BCE to 300 CE.
Nathan the Wise
Nathan the Wise (Nathan der Weise) is a 1779 dramatic poem by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing about a Jewish merchant, a Muslim sultan, and a Christian Templar.
Nationalist poetry
Nationalist poetry, known in Arabic as al-shiʿr al-waṭanī (الشعر الوطني), is poetry expressing love of homeland; in Arabic literature it spans patriotic and pan-Arab verse.
Nausicaa
Nausicaa (Ναυσικάα), Phaeacian princess of Scheria in Odyssey Book 6, daughter of Alcinous and Arete, finds the shipwrecked Odysseus; later contested by Butler's authoress theory and echoed in Joyce's Ulysses.
Naya Shairi
Naya Shairi (نئی شاعری, "new poetry") is an Urdu term for twentieth-century Urdu verse that broke with classical conventions in favor of symbolism and free verse.
Nazm
Nazm (نظم) is the principal non-ghazal genre of Urdu poetry, a poem on a single central theme, unlike the couplet-based ghazal; the modern form arose in the late 19th century.
Necuvintele
Necuvintele, Romanian for "The Non-Words," is a 1969 poetry volume by Nichita Stănescu, built around invented "non-words" naming things directly and winning the 1969 Writers' Union of Romania Prize.
Nedunalvadai
Nedunalvadai (நெடுநல்வாடை), meaning "the long, good north wind," is a classical Tamil Sangam poem of 188 lines by Nakkīrar, the seventh of the Pattuppattu, praising the Pandya king Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ.
Neel Kusum
Neel Kusum (नील कुसुम) is a collection of Hindi poems by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, who called it the invisible beginning of his "new poetry" phase.
Nel magma
Nel magma is a poetry collection by the Italian poet Mario Luzi, first published in Milan in 1963 and seen as the decisive turning point of his career.
Nemean Odes
The Nemean Odes (Νεμεόνικοι) are a book of eleven victory odes by the Greek poet Pindar, honoring athletes who won at the Nemean Games and forming one of his four surviving books of victory odes.
Nemzeti dal
"Nemzeti dal" (National Song) is a poem by the Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi, written in Pest on 13 March 1848 and chanted by crowds during the Hungarian Revolution two days later.
Neoclassicism in Arabic poetry
Neoclassicism in Arabic poetry (Arabic: مدرسة الإحياء والبعث), the school of revival and resurrection, was a 19th-century movement restoring the classical qasidah, founded by Mahmud Sami al-Barudi.
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems is a 1993 poetry collection by Yusef Komunyakaa, published by Wesleyan University Press; it won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.