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Poésies
Poésies is the conventional title for the collected verse poems of Arthur Rimbaud, about a hundred poems written between 1870 and 1875 and grouped by editors into three ensembles.
Poet and Crowd
Poet and Crowd (Поэт и толпа) is an 1828 poem by Alexander Pushkin, a dialogue in which a Poet defends art's independence from a crowd demanding usefulness.
Poet in New York
Poet in New York (Poeta en Nueva York) is a poetry collection by Federico García Lorca, written in 1929–1930 during his stay in New York and Cuba, published posthumously in 1940.
Poetry of Catullus
The poetry of Catullus is the surviving Latin verse of Gaius Valerius Catullus, a Verona poet of about 84–54 BC and the main surviving representative of the neoteric style.
Poetry of Sappho
Poetry of Sappho: surviving lyric verse in Aeolic Greek by Sappho of Lesbos (c. 600 BC), collected in nine ancient scrolls, lost after 1204, and recovered through Egyptian papyri including the 2004 and 2014 finds.
Poetry Revolution
The Poetry Revolution (詩界革命) was a reform movement in late Qing China, launched around 1899 by Liang Qichao to fill classical poetic forms with new ideas.
Poezije
Poezije, fully Poezije doktorja Franceta Prešérna, is the sole poetry collection the Slovenian Romantic poet France Prešeren published in his lifetime, printed in Ljubljana in 1847.
Points of Departure
Points of Departure is a 1981 bilingual Hebrew-English anthology of poems by the Israeli poet Dan Pagis, translated by Stephen Mitchell and published in Philadelphia.
Poppy and Memory
Poppy and Memory (Mohn und Gedächtnis) is a 1952 poetry collection by Paul Celan, containing "Todesfuge" and "Corona", which brought him his first wide recognition.
Porphyria's Lover
"Porphyria's Lover" is a dramatic monologue by the English poet Robert Browning, first published in 1836, in which an unnamed speaker strangles his lover Porphyria with her own hair.
Porunararruppatai
Porunararruppatai (பொருநராற்றுப்படை) is a classical Tamil guide poem, the second of the Ten Idylls, composed by Mutattamak Kanniyar in praise of the Chola king Karikala Peruvazhudhan.
Postcolonial Love Poem
Postcolonial Love Poem is a 2020 poetry collection by American poet Natalie Diaz, published by Graywolf Press; it won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Posthomerica
The Posthomerica, Greek τὰ μεθ' Ὅμηρον, is a fourteen-book Greek epic by Quintus of Smyrna covering the Trojan War from Hector's death to the Greeks' departure.
Pothana Bhagavatam
Pothana Bhagavatam, also known as Andhra Maha Bhagavatamu, is the Telugu rendering of the Sanskrit Bhagavata Purana composed in the 15th century by the Telangana poet Bammera Pothana.
Power Politics
Power Politics is a 1971 poetry collection by Margaret Atwood, published by House of Anansi in Toronto, that treats love between a man and a woman as a contest of power.
Pozhenzi: A Strong Ci for Chen Tongfu
"Pozhenzi: A Strong Ci for Chen Tongfu" (破阵子·为陈同甫赋壮词以寄之) is a ci poem by the Southern Song poet Xin Qiji, written for his friend, the war advocate and thinker Chen Liang.
Prabhulinga Leele
Prabhulinga Leele, also rendered Prabhulinga Leelai, is a 15th-century Kannada Virashaiva bhakti epic by the poet Chamarasa, built on the life of the saint Allama Prabhu.
Prachina
Prachina (પ્રાચીના) is a 1944 collection of seven Gujarati verse plays by the poet Umashankar Joshi, drawing on the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata, and Jataka stories.
Pralayollas
Pralayollas (প্রলয়োল্লাস, "The Exultation of Destruction") is a Bengali poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam that celebrates an impending revolution in colonial India, opening his debut collection Agnibina (1922).
Pralayshikha
Pralayshikha (প্রলয়শিখা, "The Doomsday Flame") is a collection of poems and songs by Kazi Nazrul Islam, published in Kolkata in 1930 and soon proscribed by the British.
Pranayaballari
Pranayaballari (ପ୍ରଣୟବଲ୍ଲରୀ), also rendered Pranaya Ballavi, is a kavya, a narrative poem, by the Odia poet Gangadhar Meher (1862–1924), the Swabhaba Kabi, whose Sanskrit-based kavyas helped shape modern Odia literature.
Prantik
Prantik (প্রান্তিক; The Borderland) is a 1938 collection of 18 Bengali poems by Rabindranath Tagore, composed in his final poetic phase after an illness in 1937.
Prarodanam
Prarodanam (പ്രരോദനം) is a 1919 Malayalam elegiac poem by N. Kumaran Asan mourning the scholar A. R. Rajaraja Varma, whom Asan regarded as a guru.
Pratibhā
Pratibhā (प्रतिभा) is the inborn faculty of poetic genius or creative intuition in Sanskrit poetics, regarded by most theorists as the principal cause of poetic creation, alongside scholarship and practice.
Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry
Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry (al-shiʿr al-jāhilī) is the earliest Arabic literary corpus, chiefly monorhymed qaṣīda odes such as the Muʿallaqāt, transmitted through Muslim-era collections, debated for authenticity, and foundational to Classical Arabic and Quranic studies.
Prelude to Water Melody: Bright Moon
Prelude to Water Melody: Bright Moon (水调歌头·明月几时有) is a ci lyric by Su Shi, written at the 1076 Mid-Autumn Festival and considered its outstanding Chinese poem.
Prem Jogini
Prem Jogini (प्रेमजोगिनी), The yogini of love, is an incomplete Hindi nāṭikā by Bharatendu Harishchandra, serialized from 1874, and a precursor of realistic drama in Hindi.
Prem Pathik
Prem Pathik (प्रेम-पथिक) is a short narrative poem by Jaishankar Prasad, published in Braj Bhasha in 1909 and reworked into Khari Boli Hindi in 1913.
Premières poésies
Premières poésies, French for "first poems," is a conventional catalog title for a French poet's earliest poetry collection, best known from Alfred de Musset's 1852 volume.
Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan
"Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan" is an autobiographical free verse poem by the Pakistani-British poet Moniza Alvi about gifts from her aunts and a divided identity.