Lyric poems typically express personal (often emotional) feelings and are traditionally spoken in the present tense. Modern examples often have specific rhyming schemes. Greek lyric poetry was defined ...
Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περ? ποιητικ??, c. 335 BCE (BC)) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In ...
The Tanakh (Hebrew: ?????"???, pronounced or ; also Tenakh, Tenak, Tanach) is the canon of the Hebrew Bible. It is also known as the Masoretic Text or Miqra.Tanakh is an acronym of the first ...
Rapping (also known as rap music, emceeing, MCing, spitting , or rhyming) refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to ...
Oku no Hosomichi (奥の細道?, originally おくのほそ道, meaning "Narrow road to/of the interior"), translated alternately as The Narrow Road to the Deep North and The Narrow Road to the Interior, is a m ...
Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉?, 1644 – November 28, 1694), born Matsuo Kinsaku (松尾 金作?), then Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa (松尾 忠右衛門 宗房?), was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. Durin ...
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of over 20 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century, during the time of the Hund ...
Classical Chinese poetry is traditional Chinese poetry written in Classical Chinese: typified by certain traditional forms, or modes, and certain traditional genres, as well as being considered in ter ...
Poetics refers generally to the theory of literary forms and literary discourse. It may refer specifically to the theory of poetry, although some speakers use the term so broadly as to denote the conc ...
The Mahabharata or Mahābhārata (Sanskrit: ?????????, Mahābhāratam, pronounced ) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana.Besides its epic narr ...
Textual history and structure Scene Ramayana, Gupta art, National Museum, New Delhi.Traditionally, the Ramayana is attributed to Valmiki. The Hindu tradition is unanimous in its agreement that the poe ...
Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called Kavya (or Kāvya; Sanskrit: ?????, IAST: kāvyá). The Ramayana and Mahabharata, originally composed ...
The Aeneid (/??ni??d/; Latin: Aeneis —from the Greek, genitive case Aeneidos) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who ...
Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil /?v?rd??l/ in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three ma ...
A national epic is an epic poem or a literary work of epic scope which seeks or is believed to capture and express the essence or spirit of a particular nation; not necessarily a nation state, but at ...
