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Collected Poems of Liu Yuxi
The Collected Poems of Liu Yuxi (Liu Mengde wenji, 劉夢得文集) is the collected writings of Tang dynasty poet Liu Yuxi, in thirty juan with a ten-juan Waiji.
Collected Poems of Liu Zongyuan
The Collected Poems of Liu Zongyuan (柳宗元) are about 140 surviving poems by the mid-Tang poet and official Liu Zongyuan (773–819), mostly landscape verse written during his two exiles.
Collected Poems of Meng Haoran
The Collected Poems of Meng Haoran (Meng Haoran ji, 孟浩然集) is the surviving collection of 263 poems by High Tang landscape and pastoral poet Meng Haoran of Xiangyang.
Collected Poems of Wang Bo
Collected Poems of Wang Bo (Wangzi An ji, 王子安集) is the surviving collection of works by early Tang poet Wang Bo, compiled in sixteen juan in the Ming dynasty.
Collected Poems of Wang Changling
The Collected Poems of Wang Changling (王昌龄集) is the corpus of about 180 surviving poems by Wang Changling, the High Tang frontier poet famed for his seven-character quatrains.
Collected Poems of Wang Wei
The Collected Poems of Wang Wei, also known as the Wang Youcheng Ji, gathers more than 400 poems and prose pieces by the Tang dynasty poet Wang Wei.
Collected Poems of Wei Zhuang
The Collected Poems of Wei Zhuang (韦庄集) preserve the shi poems and ci lyrics of the late Tang poet Wei Zhuang (836?–910), a pioneer of the ci lyric.
Collected Poems of Wen Tingyun
The Collected Poems of Wen Tingyun (温庭筠诗集) is the received shi poetry collection of the late-Tang poet Wen Tingyun, surviving in seven juan plus a one-juan Biejie.
Collected Poems of Xie Lingyun
The Collected Poems of Xie Lingyun (Xie Kangle ji 謝康樂集) is the collected works of Xie Lingyun (385–433), the Liu-Song poet honored as the progenitor of Chinese landscape poetry.
Collected Poems of Xie Tiao
The Collected Poems of Xie Tiao (Xie Xuancheng ji, 谢宣城集) is the surviving corpus of Southern Qi poet Xie Tiao (464–499), famed for vivid landscape verse admired by Li Bai.
Collected Poems of Yu Xin
The Collected Poems of Yu Xin (庾子山集, Yu Kaifu ji) is the collection of works by Yu Xin (513–581), leading poet of the late Southern and Northern dynasties.
Collected Poems of Zhang Jiuling
The Collected Poems of Zhang Jiuling (张九龄), preserved in the Qujiang Ji (曲江集), contain 222 poems by the Tang chancellor and his famed Ganyu cycle.
Collected Poems: 1974–2004
Collected Poems: 1974–2004 is a 2016 volume by American poet Rita Dove, published by W. W. Norton, gathering seven books of her poetry from 1974 to 2004.
Collection of Yuefu Poetry
The Collection of Yuefu Poetry (Yuefu shiji, 乐府诗集) is a 100-juan anthology of yuefu verse compiled by the Northern Song scholar Guo Maoqian, covering the Han through the Tang and Five Dynasties.
Collier's Encyclopedia
Collier's Encyclopedia was an American general encyclopedia from P.F. Collier & Son, in print 1902–1997, growing from 16 to 24 volumes, with 25,000 signed articles; a peer of Americana and Britannica.
Colonel Kurtz
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz is a fictional rogue US Army Special Forces colonel played by Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now (1979), adapted from Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Colores en el mar y otros poemas
Colores en el mar y otros poemas is the 1921 first poetry book of Mexican poet Carlos Pellicer, written on the Caribbean coasts of Campeche and Tabasco.
Comentarios reales
Comentarios reales is the title of two Peruvian landmarks: Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's 1609 chronicle of the Inca Empire and Antonio Cisneros's 1964 poetry collection that rewrites official Peruvian history.
Comic strip
Comic strip: a short serial of drawn panels, usually 3-4 daily, syndicated to newspapers since the 1890s Hogan's Alley and Yellow Kid era; oldest survivor the Katzenjammer Kids; newspaper pages declining while the format lives on in webcomics and vertical-scroll comics.
Comics
Comics: sequential visual storytelling medium of juxtaposed panels, often with balloons and captions; known as bande dessinée, manga, fumetti. Covers definition, mechanics, history, and global traditions.
Comin' Thro' the Rye
Comin' Thro' the Rye, a 1788 Robert Burns Scots song published in the Scots Musical Museum (1796), adapted from bawdy folk material, set to "The Miller's Wedding", and source of Salinger's Catcher in the Rye title.
Coming Up for Air
Coming Up for Air is a 1939 novel by George Orwell about George Bowling, an insurance salesman who revisits his childhood village on the eve of war.
Coming-of-age story
Coming-of-age story: narrative genre following a young protagonist's growth from innocence to maturity, closely tied to the German Bildungsroman (novel of formation, Goethe's Wilhelm Meister); found in novels, YA fiction, and film.
Common Ground
Common Ground is a 1985 work of narrative nonfiction by J. Anthony Lukas recounting Boston's school desegregation conflict through three families; it won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize.
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was an annual literary award for prose fiction by citizens of Commonwealth countries, administered by the Commonwealth Foundation from 1987 to 2011.
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith is JD Vance's 2026 HarperCollins memoir, sequel to Hillbilly Elegy, recounting his 2019 Catholic conversion after an evangelical childhood and atheist years, and arguing for Christianity in public life; reviews were largely negative.
Companions of the Hall
The Companions of the Hall are the adventuring party at the heart of R. A. Salvatore's Legend of Drizzt novels, led by Bruenor Battlehammer and including Drizzt Do'Urden.
Company of the Ring
Company of the Ring, also the Fellowship of the Ring or Nine Walkers: nine companions formed at Elrond's council in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to take the One Ring to Mordor, led by Gandalf, then Aragorn, broken at Parth Galen.
Compère Général Soleil
Compère Général Soleil is a 1955 novel by the Haitian writer Jacques Stephen Alexis, following poor laborer Hilarion Hilarius to the 1937 massacre of Haitian workers in the Dominican Republic.
Complete Poems of Mu Dan
Complete Poems of Mu Dan (穆旦诗全集) is a 1996 Chinese collection of 156 poems written by the modernist poet Mu Dan between 1934 and 1976.