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Salvo el crepúsculo
Salvo el crepúsculo is the final poetry collection of the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, an anthology of 132 poems from forty years of verse, published in Mexico in 1984.
Samiingok
Samiingok (사미인곡, 思美人曲) is a 1588 Korean gasa poem by the scholar-official Jeong Cheol, written in exile at Changpyeong and counted among the genre's highest achievements.
Samson Agonistes (Σαμσών ἀγωνιστής)
Samson Agonistes (Σαμσών ἀγωνιστής), Milton's 1671 closet tragedy published with Paradise Regained, retells Judges 13–16 in Greek tragic form with a chorus, blind Samson in Gaza, and no stage performance until Poel's 1900 production.
Samutthakhot Kham Chan
Samutthakhot Kham Chan (สมุทรโฆษคำฉันท์) is a Thai narrative poem telling the adventures of Prince Samutthakhot and Pintumat, begun under King Narai and completed by Paramanuchit Chinorot about 160 years later.
Samyukta (संयुक्ता)
Samyukta, also known as Sanyogita or Samyogita, is the princess of Kannauj whom the bardic epic Prithviraj Raso presents as King Jaichand's daughter, won by Prithviraj Chauhan at her swayamvara.
Sanchayita
Sanchayita (সঞ্চয়িতা) is a 1931 self-edited anthology of Rabindranath Tagore's Bengali poetry, containing nearly 400 poems he chose across his career; it remains the standard single-volume selection and is often confused with Kazi Nazrul Islam's Sanchita.
Sand and Foam
Sand and Foam (رمل وزبد) is a 1926 book of aphorisms by the Lebanese-American writer Kahlil Gibran, gathering several hundred sayings on love, life, death, and beauty.
Sandhya Sangit
Sandhya Sangit (সন্ধ্যাসঙ্গীত, "Evening Songs") is an early Bengali lyric collection by Rabindranath Tagore, published in Kolkata in 1882 and regarded as his first book.
Sang Sinxay
Sang Sinxay (ສັງສິນໄຊ, also rendered Sinxay, Sinsai, or Sang Sinchai) is a classical Lao epic poem attributed to Pang Kham and composed between the mid-sixteenth and late seventeenth centuries.
Sang thu
"Sang thu" ("Turning to autumn") is a 1977 twelve-line poem by the Vietnamese poet Hữu Thỉnh, describing the transition from summer to autumn in the Red River Delta countryside.
Sangam literature (சங்க இலக்கியம்)
Sangam literature (சங்க இலக்கியம்), also called the Cankam corpus, is the oldest surviving classical Tamil poetry: 2,381 poems by 473 poets in the Eight Anthologies and Ten Idylls, conventionally dated 300 BCE–300 CE, with disputed later dating.
Sangchun-gok
Sangchun-gok (상춘곡, "Song of Savoring Spring") is a Korean gasa attributed to early Joseon official Jeong Geuk-in and widely treated as the genre's earliest surviving work.
Sanjung singok
Sanjung singok (산중신곡, "New Songs in the Mountains") is a cycle of 18 sijo poems written in 1642 by the Joseon poet Yun Seondo while living in retirement at Haenam, Korea.
Sanjūrokkasen
Sanjūrokkasen (三十六歌仙, the Thirty-Six Poetry Immortals) is the name for 36 master waka poets selected by the mid-Heian nobleman Fujiwara no Kintō, including Ono no Komachi and Ki no Tsurayuki.
Sanjūrokunin Kashū
Sanjūrokunin Kashū (三十六人家集, also read Sanjūrokuninshū) is a late Heian anthology of the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry; the oldest copy, at Nishi Hongan-ji in Kyoto, is a National Treasure.
Sankashū
Sankashū (山家集, "Collection of a Mountain Hermitage") is the most important personal waka anthology of the Japanese poet Saigyō, one of the medieval Six Poet Anthologies.
Sant Kavya
Sant Kavya (संत काव्य) is the knowledge-oriented branch of nirguna bhakti poetry in Hindi, written by poet-saints such as Kabir between the 14th and 17th centuries.
Sanyasi
Sanyasi is a play by Rabindranath Tagore, his own English rendering of the Bengali verse drama Prakritir Pratisodh, about an ascetic drawn back to the world.
Saqt al-Zand
Saqt al-Zand (سقط الزند) is the diwan of the youthful poetry of the blind Arab poet Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (973–1057), gathering about three thousand verses of classical qasida poetry.
Sarashina Kikō
Sarashina Kikō (更科紀行, Sarashina Travel Journal) is a short haibun travel record by Matsuo Bashō, written in 1688 about viewing the autumn full moon over Mt. Obasute in Shinano Province.
Sarbahara
Sarbahara (সর্বহারা, "The Proletariat") is a 1926 poetry collection by the Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, giving its name to the most socialist phase of his verse.
Sarbohara
Sarbohara (সর্বহারা, also Sarbahara) is a Bengali word meaning the proletariat, best known as a 1926 poetry collection by Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bangladesh's national poet.
Sare Jahan se Accha (سارے جہاں سے اچھا)
Sare Jahan se Accha, formally Tarana-e-Hindi, is an Urdu patriotic song written by Muhammad Iqbal in 1904 that became a rallying cry against British rule.
Sariqa
Sariqa is the classical Arabic critical term for a poet's taking of meaning, wording, or imagery from another poet and presenting it as his own.
Sarngadharapaddhati
The Sarngadharapaddhati (Sanskrit: Sharngadharapaddhati) is a Sanskrit anthology of 4,689 short poems compiled by Sarngadhara in 1363, citing over 300 authors and covering ethics, yoga, and archery.
Saroj Smriti
Saroj Smriti (सरोज स्मृति), "In Memory of Saroj", is a long 1935 Hindi elegy by the Chhayavad poet Nirala, mourning his daughter Saroj and considered Hindi's finest elegy.
Sarumino
Sarumino (猿蓑, "Monkey's Raincoat") is a Japanese haikai poetry anthology published in Kyoto in 1691, compiled by Mukai Kyorai and Nozawa Bonchō under Matsuo Bashō's supervision.
Sarvajna's Tripadis
Sarvajna's Tripadis (ಸರ್ವಜ್ಞನ ತ್ರಿಪದಿಗಳು) are roughly 2,000 three-line Kannada wisdom verses in the tripadi meter attributed to Sarvajna, the sixteenth-century wandering poet-philosopher known as the people's poet.
Sasadavata
Sasadavata (සසඳාවත) is a classical Sinhala ornate narrative poem retelling the Sasa Jataka, the Bodhisattva's birth as a hare, and among the earliest works of Sinhala court poetry.
Satires (Juvenal)
The Satires (Saturae) of Juvenal, sixteen hexameter poems in five books written in the early second century CE, attack Roman corruption with indignatio; famous for Satires 3, 6, and 10, phrases like "bread and circuses," and imitations by Johnson and Dryden.