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Os Lusíadas ( Portuguese pronunciation: [uʒ luˈzi.ɐðɐʃ] ), usually translated as The Lusiads, is a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís Vaz de Camões [1] ( c. 1524/5 – 1580) and first published in 1572. It is widely regarded as the most important work of Portuguese-language literature and is frequently compared to Virgil 's Aeneid ...
Inferno at Wikisource. Inferno ( Italian: [iɱˈfɛrno]; Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri 's 14th-century narrative poem The Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso.
Don Juan (1819) First Ed. In English literature, Don Juan, written from 1819 to 1824 by the English poet Lord Byron, is a satirical, epic poem that portrays the Spanish folk legend of Don Juan, not as a womaniser as historically portrayed, but as a victim easily seduced by women. [1] As genre literature, Don Juan is an epic poem, written in ...
The Cantos. The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long poem in 109 sections plus a number of drafts and fragments added as a supplement at the request of the poem's American publisher, James Laughlin. Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the material in the first three cantos was abandoned or redistributed in 1923, when Pound ...
Jerusalem Delivered, also known as The Liberation of Jerusalem ( Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata [la dʒeruzaˈlɛmme libeˈraːta]; lit. 'The freed Jerusalem' ), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of ...
The following canto-by-canto description of the work is from A. K. Warder. Bharavi's work begins with the word śrī (fortune), and the last verse of every canto contains the synonym Lakshmi. I. A spy of the exiled king Yudhishthira arrives and informs him of the activities of the Kauravas.
La Pucelle d'Orléans by Voltaire (1756) Poems of Ossian by James Macpherson (1760–1765) The Seasons by Kristijonas Donelaitis (1765–1775) O Uraguai by Basílio da Gama (1769) Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (1773) O Desertor das Letras by Silva Alvarenga (1774), a short mock-heroic epic.
The epic is written in old Estonian alliterative verse. Approximately one eighth of the verses are authentic; the rest are imitation. Contents and synopses Kalev proposes marriage to Linda. Kristjan Raud, c. 1935. The Kalevipoeg consists of twenty cantos. Canto I - The marriages of Salme and Linda Three brothers travel to different places.