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Satura
Satura is the fourth poetry collection by Italian poet Eugenio Montale, published by Mondadori in 1971, including the elegiac Xenia poems for his wife Drusilla Tanzi.
Saturae Menippeae
Varronian satire, called Menippean Satires by its author Marcus Terentius Varro, was about 150 books of prose-and-verse Latin satire on morality and philosophy, surviving only in fragments.
Satyaki
Satyaki (Sātyaki, सात्यकि), also Yuyudhana, a Vrishni Yadava warrior of the Mahabharata: Arjuna's pupil, Krishna's companion, Pandava commander, slayer of Bhurisravas on the war's 14th day, and later killed in the Yadava brawl at Prabhasa.
Satyavati (सत्यवती)
Satyavati (सत्यवती), also Matsyagandha and Yojanagandha, is the Mahabharata's fisherwoman-turned-queen of Hastinapur: wife of Shantanu, mother of Vyasa by Parashara, and matriarch whose niyoga arrangement produced the Kauravas' and Pandavas' fathers.
Saundarananda
Saundarananda (सौन्दरनन्दम्) is a Sanskrit court epic by the Buddhist poet Aśvaghoṣa, from the first or second century CE, telling how the Buddha converted his half-brother Nanda to monastic life.
Savitri and Satyavan
Savitri and Satyavan (सावित्री-सत्यवान्) is a Mahabharata Vana Parva episode, chapters 293–300, in which Savitri follows Yama and wins boons restoring her husband's life; basis of Vat Savitri and Sri Aurobindo's epic.
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol is an epic poem in English blank verse by Sri Aurobindo, retelling the Mahabharata legend of Savitri and Satyavan, composed from 1916 to 1950.
Sawerigading
Sawerigading is the main hero of the La Galigo epic, a pre-Islamic Bugis mythological cycle from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, estimated at about 6,000 folio pages.
Says Tuka
Says Tuka: Selected Poetry of Tukaram is Dilip Chitre's 1991 Penguin translation of devotional abhangs by the 17th-century Marathi poet-saint Tukaram, which won Chitre the 1994 Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize.
Schneepart
Schneepart, translated as Snow-Part, is a posthumous collection of about seventy poems by Paul Celan, written in 1967 and 1968 and published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 1971.
Scrisoarea a III-a
Scrisoarea a III-a is a long poem by Mihai Eminescu, first published in 1881, contrasting a heroic past with a satirical portrait of his own day.
Scrisoarea I
Scrisoarea I ("The First Epistle") is an 1881 philosophical poem by Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, the first of his five Epistles and a central text of Romanian literature.
Scrisoarea V
Scrisoarea V, subtitled Dalila, is a satirical poem by Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, closing his cycle of five Scrisori epistles with a satire of vanity and profaned love.
Search for My Tongue
"Search for My Tongue" is a 1988 poem by Indian poet Sujata Bhatt, written in English with Gujarati, in which a speaker dreams her lost mother tongue grows back.
Second Farewell to Cambridge
Second Farewell to Cambridge (再别康桥) is a 1928 lyric poem by Xu Zhimo, the best-known work of the Crescent Moon School of modern Chinese poetry.
Seerapuranam
Seerapuranam (சீறாப்புராணம்) is a Tamil Muslim epic poem on the life of the Prophet Muhammad, composed by Umaru Pulavar in 5,028 stanzas and considered the greatest Tamil Islamic epic.
Selected Poems of Bei Dao
Selected Poems of Bei Dao (北岛诗选) is a 1986 collection of 90 poems by the Chinese Misty Poetry poet Bei Dao, his first formally published collection in China.
Selected Poems of Seo Jeong-ju
Selected Poems of Seo Jeong-ju, the 1989 English collection translated by David R. McCann, was the first book-length English selection of the leading twentieth-century Korean poet.
Selected Poems of Yu Guangzhong
Selected Poems of Yu Guangzhong (余光中精选集) is an anthology of representative works by the Taiwanese poet Yu Guangzhong (1928–2017), best known for his 1972 nostalgia poem "Nostalgia."
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" is a long 1975 poem by John Ashbery, an ekphrastic meditation on Parmigianino's 1524 painting in which the artist paints his face distorted by a convex mirror.
Selige Sehnsucht
Selige Sehnsucht is an 1814 poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1819 in the West-östlicher Divan, centred on a moth drawn to a flame.
Sentimento do mundo
Sentimento do mundo ("Feeling of the World") is a 1940 book of poems by the Brazilian writer Carlos Drummond de Andrade, his third poetry collection.
Senzai Wakashū
Senzai Wakashū (千載和歌集, "Collection of a Thousand Years"), usually shortened to Senzaishū, is the seventh imperial anthology of Japanese waka, compiled by Fujiwara no Shunzei and presented in 1188.
Seodongyo
Seodongyo (서동요, "Song of Seodong") is a four-line hyangga preserved in the Samguk yusa, attributed to Seodong, the boyhood name of Baekje's King Mu, who reportedly used it to win Princess Seonhwa of Silla.
Seogyeong byeolgok
Seogyeong byeolgok (서경별곡) is an anonymous Goryeo dynasty song, one of the representative Goryeo sogyo, lamenting a forced parting between lovers at Seogyeong, present-day Pyongyang, and it remained a court favorite into the early Joseon period.
Seongsan byeolgok
Seongsan byeolgok (성산별곡, "Song of Seongsan") is a Korean gasa lyric poem by Jeong Cheol, written around 1578 and praising the scenery of Seongsan in Damyang County.
Serat Bratayuda
Serat Bratayuda, also written Serat Baratayuda, is a Javanese verse adaptation of the Bharatayuddha, composed at the Surakarta court and attributed to Yasadipura I, a standard source for wayang plays.
Serat Centhini
Serat Centhini, also known as Suluk Tambangraras, is a Javanese encyclopedic narrative poem composed at the Surakarta court in the early 1810s, covering Javanese religion, music, food, and everyday life.
Serat Dewa Ruci
Serat Dewa Ruci is a Javanese wayang text in which Bima seeks the water of life and meets the deity Dewa Ruci, who teaches spiritual perfection.
Serat Kalatidha
Serat Kalatidha is a celebrated Javanese poem by the Surakarta court poet Ronggowarsita, written around 1860 in the Sinom meter, describing an age of madness.