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Atta Troll
Atta Troll is a satirical verse epic by Heinrich Heine about a dancing bear whose escape becomes a vehicle for political and literary satire, begun in 1841.
Attakatha
Attakatha (ആട്ടക്കഥ), meaning "enacted story", is the literary text written for performance in Kathakali, the classical dance-drama of Kerala, composed in Manipravalam; Unnayi Warrier's Nalacharitam is its finest example.
Aubade
"Aubade" is a poem by the English poet Philip Larkin on the fear of death, completed in 1977 and generally regarded as his last major poem.
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" is a twelve-line 1951 poem by Adrienne Rich, about a woman who embroiders fearless tigers while weighed down by an oppressive marriage.
Aurora Leigh
Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 1856 nine-book blank verse novel-poem (also called a verse novel), traces a woman poet's growth from Florence to London and became a feminist-recovered classic.
Australian Aboriginal poetry movement
The Australian Aboriginal poetry movement is the written verse of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, published since Oodgeroo Noonuccal's pioneering 1964 collection We Are Going.
Autobiography of Red
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, Anne Carson's 1998 Knopf book, reimagines the Stesichoros Geryon myth as a queer coming-of-age love story; sequel Red Doc>.
Autumn Meditations
Autumn Meditations (秋興八首, Qiuxing bashou, also translated Autumn Thoughts) is a cycle of eight regulated-verse poems written by the Tang poet Du Fu in 766.
Autumn Thoughts (Tian Jing Sha)
Autumn Thoughts (天净沙·秋思, Qiu Si) is a 28-character Yuan-dynasty sanqu song conventionally attributed to Ma Zhiyuan, depicting a heartbroken traveler at dusk through nine verbless images; praised in 1324 as the "ancestor of autumn thoughts."
Autumn Wind Song
Autumn Wind Song (Qiufeng ci, 秋風辭) is a nine-line Chinese verse attributed to Emperor Wu of Han, lamenting aging during a banquet on the Fen River.
Awater
Awater is a 273-line narrative poem by the Dutch poet Martinus Nijhoff, published in 1934 in Nieuwe gedichten and often called the Dutch answer to Eliot's The Waste Land.
Awit ni Labaw Donggon
Awit ni Labaw Donggon ("The Song of Labaw Donggon") is a Philippine epic cycle of the Sulod people's Hinilawod chant tradition, published by F. Landa Jocano in 1965.
Ayadgar-i Zareran
Ayadgar-i Zareran is a short Middle Persian text recounting King Wištāsp's defense of the Zoroastrian faith against Arǰāsp, the only surviving specimen of ancient Iranian epic poetry.
Az apostol
Az apostol ("The Apostle") is a narrative poem by the Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi, written in 1848, about Szilveszter, a revolutionary who dies misunderstood and alone.
Babad Giyanti
Babad Giyanti, also known as Babad Mangkubumen, is a Javanese historical chronicle in tembang macapat verse form covering Java's political upheavals from 1741 to 1757.
Babruvahana (बभ्रुवाहन)
Babruvahana (बभ्रुवाहन), also Babhruvahana, is the Mahabharata son of Arjuna and the Manipur princess Chitrangada; in the Ashvamedha Parva he fights and defeats his father when the sacrificial horse reaches Manipur.
Bạch Vân am thi tập
Bạch Vân am thi tập (白雲菴詩集), the Poetry Collection of the White Cloud Hermitage, is the Sino-character poetry collection of 16th-century Vietnamese scholar-official Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm.
Bạch Vân quốc ngữ thi tập
Bạch Vân quốc ngữ thi tập, the White Cloud collection of national-language poems, is a chữ Nôm poetry collection by the sixteenth-century Vietnamese scholar Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm.
Badal Ko Ghirte Dekha Hai
Badal Ko Ghirte Dekha Hai (बादल को घिरते देखा है) is a 1938 Hindi nature poem by Nagarjun, first published in Sarasvati, describing clouds gathering over the Himalayas.
Bagagem
Bagagem is the 1976 debut poetry collection of Brazilian writer Adélia Prado, endorsed by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and counted among the finest first books in Brazilian poetry.
Bài ca ngất ngưởng
Bài ca ngất ngưởng ("Song of the Lofty and Unsteady") is a Vietnamese poem in the hát nói form, written by the poet and official Nguyễn Công Trứ after 1848.
Baidehisha Vilasa
Baidehisha Vilasa (ବୈଦେହୀଶ ବିଳାସ) is a seventeenth-century Odia kavya by Upendra Bhanja, a landmark of Odia literature that retells the Ramayana with erotic sentiment at its center.
Baishi Daoren Gequ
Baishi Daoren Gequ (白石道人歌曲) is a collection of songs and lyrics by Southern Song poet-composer Jiang Kui, the only Song ci collection surviving with musical notation.
Bakhtrioni
Bakhtrioni (ბახტრიონი) is an 1892 epic poem by the Georgian poet Vazha-Pshavela recounting the 1659 uprising of the people of Kakheti against Persian rule, in which Georgian highlanders stormed the Bakhtrioni fortress.
Bal w operze
Bal w operze (A Ball at the Opera) is a satirical verse narrative by Polish poet Julian Tuwim, caricaturing the Sanacja regime elite, written in 1936.
Bal-e-Jibril
Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل; "Gabriel's Wing") is the second Urdu poetry collection of Muhammad Iqbal, published in Lahore in 1935 and widely regarded as the peak of his Urdu verse.
Balade Petrice Kerempuha
Balade Petrice Kerempuha (The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh) is a 1936 poetry collection in Kajkavian Croatian by Miroslav Krleža, narrated by the folk trickster Petrica Kerempuh.
Baldus
Baldus is a mock-epic poem in macaronic Latin hexameters by the Italian poet Teofilo Folengo, writing as Merlin Cocai, regarded as the masterpiece of the macaronic genre.
Ballad of Beautiful Women
Ballad of Beautiful Women (Lì Rén Xíng, 丽人行) is a satirical narrative poem by the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, written in 753 about the Yang family's extravagance.
Ballad of Mulan
The Ballad of Mulan (木蘭辭) is an anonymous Chinese folk ballad of the Northern Dynasties about a woman who serves in the army in her father's place.