Poetry took numerous forms in medieval Europe, for example, lyric and epic poetry. The troubadours, trouvères, and the minnesänger are known for composing...

Medieval debate poetry was a genre of poems popular in England and France during the late medieval period. The same type of debate poems broadly existed...

Johnston, Dafydd, ed. (1998). Canu maswedd yr oesoedd canol (Medieval Welsh erotic poetry). Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr [Bridgend]: Seren. ISBN 1-85411-234-1. Jenkins...

Spanish literature Medieval Welsh literature Medieval poetry Medieval drama Medieval allegory Medieval mysticism Fabliau Medieval travel literature Arthurian...

Poetry as an oral art form likely predates written text. The earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung, employed as a way of remembering...

subdued, It knows not how to atone: thus it goes to damnation.' In medieval Persian poetry, ubi sunt is a pervasive theme in The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:...

of much medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, and modern lyric poetry, but these works were composed in elegiac couplets and so were not lyric poetry in the...

implied cosmology with that of Tolkien's religion, Catholicism, and of medieval poetry such as Pearl or Dante's Paradiso, where there are three parts, Earth...

Gnomic poetry consists of meaningful sayings put into verse to aid the memory. They were known by the Greeks as gnomes (c.f. the Greek adjective γνωμικός...

This article concerns poetry in Spain. The Medieval period covers 400 years of different poetry texts and can be broken up into five categories. Since...