World poetry - topics

World poetry is used on Penny's Poetry Pages as a generic term to designate poetry written in other than the English language. Poetry appears in every written language, and through the years the poetry of many other languages has influenced that of English through both imitation and translation. So while our goal is only to comprehensively cover English-language poetry, we believe that cannot be done without some account of the poetry of other languages.

World poetry
Poets of other languages
Historical
Ancient Greek • Ancient Latin Biblical • Classical Chinese Indian epic • Old Norse Medieval poetry Ottoman poetry • Serbian epic
National poetries
Africa
Malagasy  • South African Swahili poetry
Americas
French Canadian poetry Latin American poetry
Asia
Chinese • Japanese • Korean Indian • Assamese • Bengali Hindu • Kannada • Marathi Sindhi • Urdu • Afghani Arabic • Hebrew • Pakistani Persian • Turkish Javanese • Vietnamese
Europe
Irish • Scottish • Welsh • Manx French poetry • German poetry Hungarian poetry • Italian poetry Polish • Portuguese • Spanish Finnish poetry • Swedish poetry List of English-language poets

Historical

• Ancient Greek poetry
• Ancient Latin poetry
• Biblical poetry
• Classical Chinese poetry
• Indian epic poetry
• Old Norse poetry
• Ottoman poetry
• Serbian epic poetry

Africa

• Malagasy poetry
• South African poetry
• Swahili poetry

Americas

• Canadian poetry in French
• Latin American poetry

Asia

East Asia

• Chinese poetry
• Japanese poetry
• Korean poetry

Indian poetry

• Assamese poetry
• Bengali poetry
• Kannada poetry
• Marathi poetry
• Sindhi poetry
• Urdu poetry

Middle and Near East

• Afghanistani poetry
• Arabic poetry
• Modern Hebrew poetry
• Pakistani poetry
• Persian poetry
• Turkish folk poetry

Southeast Asia

• Javanese poetry
• Vietnamese poetry

Europe

British Isles

• Irish poetry
• Scottish poetry
• Welsh poetry
• Manx poetry

Continent

• French poetry
• German poetry
• Italian poetry
• Polish poetry
• Portuguese poetry
• Spanish poetry

Scandinavia

• Finnish poetry

See also

• Poets writing in other than English