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............ Literature and Performing Arts
................ <Named written and performed works>
.................... <Literary works: Poetry>
........................ Aeneid (epic poem, Virgil, 30/19 BCE)
........................ Ars amatoria (poem, Ovid, ca. 1 BCE)
........................ Ars Amatoria (elegy, Ovid, 2 CE)
........................ Divine Comedy, The (narrative poem, Dante, ca. 1308-1321)
........................ Gerusalemme liberata (epic poem, Tasso, 1581)
........................ Hávamál (poem, Viking, 13th century)
........................ Idylls of the King (narrative poems, Tennyson, 1859)
........................ Iliad (epic poem, Homer, 8th century BCE)
........................ Mahabharata (epic poem, Vyasa, ca. 1500 BCE)
........................ Metamorphoses (narrative poem, Ovid, ca. 8 CE)
........................ Nibelungenlied (epic poem, unknown Austrian, ca. 1200)
........................ Odes (lyric poems, Horace, 23-13 BCE)
........................ Odyssey (epic poem, Homer, 8th century BCE)
........................ Orlando Furioso (epic poem, Ariosto, 1516)
........................ Raghuvamsha (mahakavya (poem), Kalidasa, 5th century)
........................ Ramayana (epic poem, Sanskrit, 300 BCE or later)
........................ Roman de la rose (poem, Guillaume de Lorris, 1225/1230-1280)
........................ Tales of Ise (poems, Kino Tsurayuki, 10th century)
........................ The Foresters (poem, Alexander Wilson, 1838)


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