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El estudiante de Salamanca
El estudiante de Salamanca is an 1840 narrative poem by José de Espronceda retelling the Don Juan legend through the libertine student don Félix de Montemar.
El hacedor
El hacedor ("The Maker") is a 1960 collection by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges that mixes poems, prose pieces, and parables, including "Borges y yo".
El otro, el mismo
El otro, el mismo is a 1964 poetry collection by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, gathering his El hacedor poems with fifty-seven new ones.
El peregrino indiano
El peregrino indiano is an epic poem by Antonio de Saavedra Guzmán, printed in Madrid in 1599, narrating Cortés's conquest of Mexico from Cuba to the fall of Mexico-Tenochtitlan.
El rayo que no cesa
El rayo que no cesa ("The Lightning That Does Not Cease") is a 1936 book of thirty love poems, mostly sonnets, by the Spanish poet Miguel Hernández.
El silencio de la luna
El silencio de la luna is a 1994 poetry collection by the Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco, gathering poems from 1985 to 1993 and winning Colombia's José Asunción Silva prize in 1996.
Elegies of Propertius
The Elegies of Propertius are four books of Latin elegiac couplets by the Augustan poet Sextus Propertius (ca 50–16 BC), the first three dominated by his love for Cynthia.
Elegies of Theognis
The Elegies of Theognis, also called the Theognidea, are a corpus of roughly 1,389 ancient Greek elegiac verses attributed to Theognis of Megara of the sixth century BCE.
Elegy
Elegy: poetic form with a double meaning, ancient Greek elegiac couplet (hexameter plus pentameter) for any subject, and modern poem of mourning; also Persian marṯīa, defined by lament, praise, consolation stages.
Elegy for a Polish Boy
"Elegy for a Polish Boy" (Elegia o... [chłopcu polskim]) is a 1944 war poem by Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, written as a mother's farewell to her soldier son.
Elegy of Fortinbras
Elegy of Fortinbras (Polish: Tren Fortynbrasa) is a 1957 poem by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert in which Fortinbras, who closes Shakespeare's Hamlet, delivers a monologue over the dead Hamlet.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray's 128-line iambic-pentameter poem (also called An Elegy wrote in a Country Church Yard), completed 1750 and anonymously published by Dodsley in February 1751; a graveyard-school meditation on the rural dead.
Eleh Ezkerah
Eleh Ezkerah (אלה אזכרה, "These I remember") is a medieval Ashkenazic liturgical poem mourning the Ten Martyrs, ten rabbis executed by the Romans for teaching Torah, recited on Yom Kippur.
Éloges
Éloges is the first poetry collection of the French poet and diplomat Alexis Léger, later known as Saint-John Perse, published in 1911 and celebrating his childhood in Guadeloupe.
Eloisa to Abelard
Eloisa to Abelard, Alexander Pope's 1717 heroic epistle of 366 lines, voices the twelfth-century nun Heloise's struggle between love of Abelard and religious vocation, based on Hughes's 1713 translation and widely imitated in France.
Elveskud
Elveskud (Elverskud), Danish for "Elf-shot," is a medieval Scandinavian ballad, DgF 47, in which knight Herr Oluf is killed by an elf-maiden on his wedding eve.
Émaux et camées
Émaux et camées is a collection of short poems by the French writer Théophile Gautier, first published in 1852, embodying art for art's sake and founding Parnassianism.
Emina
"Emina" is a love poem by Aleksa Šantić, published in 1902 and dedicated to Emina Sefić of Mostar; as a song it became a famous sevdalinka.
Emperor Shaka the Great
Emperor Shaka the Great (UNodumehlezi KaMenzi) is a 1979 Zulu epic poem by the South African poet Mazisi Kunene, recounting the life of Shaka, founder of the Zulu empire.
En el teocalli de Cholula
"En el teocalli de Cholula" is an 1820 meditative poem by the Cuban poet José María Heredia, considered a precursor of romantic poetry in Hispanic America.
En la masmédula
En la masmédula is the final book of poetry by the Argentine avant-garde poet Oliverio Girondo, first published in 1954, an experiment with coined Spanish words.
Endymion (poem)
Endymion: A Poetic Romance, John Keats's 4,050-line narrative poem on the Endymion myth, drafted 1817, published by Taylor & Hessey in April 1818, attacked by Blackwood's and the Quarterly Review.
Eneida
Eneida (Енеїда) is a burlesque-travesty poem by the Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotliarevsky that reworks Virgil's Aeneid into the Ukrainian vernacular, published from 1798 and treated as the starting point of modern Ukrainian literature.
Engführung
Engführung, translated as "The Straitening," is a long poem by Paul Celan, written in 1958 and published in 1959 as the closing poem of his collection Sprachgitter.
English Geetagalu
English Geetagalu (ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್ ಗೀತಗಳು, "English Songs") is a 1921 Kannada collection of translated English poems by B.M. Srikantaiah, regarded as the founding work of modern Kannada lyric poetry.
English poetry
English poetry: verse in the English language from Old English alliterative meter (Beowulf, four stresses, caesura) through Chaucer's iambic pentameter, Renaissance blank verse, and modern free verse.
Enkidu
Enkidu, also known as Eabani, is the wild man of the Epic of Gilgamesh, created by the goddess Aruru as a counterpart to Gilgamesh, king of Uruk.
Ente Gurunathan
Ente Gurunathan (എന്റെ ഗുരുനാഥൻ, "My Master") is a Malayalam poem by Vallathol Narayana Menon celebrating Mahatma Gandhi, whom the poet acknowledges as his spiritual guru.
Enter Without So Much as Knocking
"Enter Without So Much as Knocking" is a 1962 satirical free-verse poem by Australian poet Bruce Dawe, tracing an unnamed man's life from birth to funeral amid consumer culture.
Envoy to the Frontier
Envoy to the Frontier (使至塞上) is a 737 Tang frontier poem by Wang Wei, famous for its desert couplet on the lone smoke and round setting sun.