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Epic of Köroğlu
The Epic of Köroğlu (Köroğlu Destanı) is a heroic oral epic of the Turkic peoples about a minstrel and poet who revolts against a ruler's injustice, told in some five hundred versions.
Epic of Ségou
The Epic of Ségou is an oral epic of the Bambara people recounting the kingdom of Ségou in 18th and 19th-century Mali, performed by griots.
Epic of Sundiata
The Epic of Sundiata (Sunjata epic) is a Mande oral epic of West Africa recounting how Sundiata Keita founded the Mali Empire after defeating Sumanguru Kanté at Kirina c. 1235; carried by griots, first printed by Niane in 1960.
Epic of the Forgotten
Epic of the Forgotten (Epopeya na zabravenite) is a cycle of twelve odes by Ivan Vazov honoring Bulgarian National Revival figures, written 1881 to 1884.
Epic poetry in Republican-era Turkish poetry
Epic poetry in Republican-era Turkish poetry (epik şiir, or destan) is a strand of verse after 1923 treating the War of Independence in grand narrative style.
Er Targhyn
Er Targhyn (Kazakh: Ер Тарғын) is a Kazakh heroic epic whose hero, the warrior Targhyn, defends his people in the era of the Nogai Horde; it inspired the first Kazakh national opera.
Erec and Enide
Erec and Enide (Old French Erec et Enide) is a verse Arthurian romance by the twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes and the first known Arthurian romance.
Ergenekon Epic
The Ergenekon Epic (Ergenekon Destanı) is a Turkic origin epic, first written down in 1307, in which a defeated people escapes a hidden valley by melting an iron mountain.
Eşber
Eşber is an 1880 verse drama in Ottoman Turkish by Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, centered on Alexander the Great's Indian campaign, and among his few stageable plays.
Eteriani
Eteriani (ეთერიანი, "the tale of Eteri") is a Georgian folk lyrical-romantic epic of the tragic love of Abesalom and Eteri, surviving in roughly 70 oral texts.
Eugene Onegin (Евгений Онегин)
Eugene Onegin (Евгений Онегин), Pushkin's 1823–1831 novel in verse in the 14-line Onegin stanza; basis of Tchaikovsky's opera; the celebrated Nabokov 1964 translation; ~40 English versions exist.
Evangeline
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1847 dactylic-hexameter narrative poem about an Acadian woman's lifelong search for Gabriel after the 1755 British expulsion of the Acadians.
Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor
Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor, or Historia evangelica, is a Latin verse rendering of the gospels in about 3,200 hexameter lines, composed around 330 CE by the Spanish presbyter Juvencus.
Ežo Vlkolinský
Ežo Vlkolinský is an 1890 verse epic by the Slovak poet Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, the first of two epics on the decline of the landowning gentry.
Fakoli Koroma
Fakoli Koroma is a legendary commander of the Sunjata epic, who deserts the Soso king Sumanguru to join the hero Sunjata Keita, founder of the Mali empire.
Faust, Part One
Faust, Part One (Faust I) is the first part of Goethe's verse tragedy Faust, published in full in 1808, in which Faust makes a pact with Mephistopheles.
Faust, Part Two
Faust, Part Two (German: Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil) is the second part of Goethe's verse tragedy Faust, completed in 1831 and published posthumously in 1832.
Faust: A Poem
Faust: A Poem (German: Faust. Ein Gedicht) is an 1836 epic-dramatic verse poem by the Austrian poet Nikolaus Lenau, retelling the Faust legend as one of doubt and despair rather than redemption.
Filostrato
Il Filostrato, meaning "prostrated by love," is a narrative poem in nine parts by Giovanni Boccaccio, written around 1335 in ottava rima, best known as the principal source of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
First Dream
First Dream (Primero sueño, also El Sueño) is a long philosophical poem by the New Spanish nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, narrating the soul's nocturnal attempt to comprehend the universe.
Five Great Epics
The Five Great Epics are five Tamil epic poems: Cilappatikāram, Manimekalai, Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi, Valayapathi, and Kundalakesi, mostly by Jain and Buddhist poets; two survive only in fragments.
Flamenca
Flamenca is an anonymous 13th-century Old Occitan romance of about 8,095 lines about a wife imprisoned by her jealous husband and rescued by a knight.
Flavian epic
Flavian epic is the Latin epic poetry written at Rome during the Flavian dynasty (69–96 CE): Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Statius' Thebaid and Achilleid, and Silius Italicus' Punica.
Florante at Laura
Florante at Laura (Pinagdaanang Buhay ni Florante at ni Laura sa Kahariang Albania) is an 1838 Tagalog awit by Francisco Balagtas, 399 dodecasyllabic quatrains, written in prison, never out of print, and read as veiled anti-colonial protest.
Frauendienst
The Frauendienst is a largely fictional Middle High German verse narrative of 1255 by Ulrich von Liechtenstein, presenting itself as his autobiography as a servant of ladies.
Frithiofs saga
Frithiofs saga is a Swedish narrative poem by the poet and bishop Esaias Tegnér, published complete in 1825, retelling a medieval Icelandic saga of Frithiof and Ingeborg in varied verse forms.
Frost, Red Nose
Frost, Red Nose (Мороз, Красный нос) is a narrative poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written in 1862–1863 about a peasant widow who freezes in a winter forest.
Fu on Contemplating the Mystery
Fu on Contemplating the Mystery (Sixuan fu, 思玄赋) is a long rhapsody by the Eastern Han poet Zhang Heng (78–139), describing an imaginary journey through the heavens.
Fu on the Imperial Park
Fu on the Imperial Park (Shanglin fu) is a monumental rhapsody by the Western Han poet Sima Xiangru, written for Emperor Wu, celebrating the Shanglin imperial hunting park.
Fulani oral epic
The Fulani oral epic is the heroic narrative tradition of the Fulbe (Fulani, Peul) peoples of West Africa, performed by griots with musical accompaniment, best documented in the Massina region of Mali.