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Eobusa
Eobusa (어부사) is a Korean gasa poem, the Fisherman's Song revised by the scholar Yi Hyeon-bo in 1549 and later sung among the twelve gasa.
Epic Cycle (πικὸς κύκλος)
The Epic Cycle (᾽Επικὸς κύκλος) is a lost collection of archaic Greek epics on the gods, the Theban Wars, and the Trojan War, known from Proclus' summaries and fragments, distinct from the surviving Iliad and Odyssey.
Epic of Alp Er Tunga
The Epic of Alp Er Tunga (Alp Er Tunga Destanı) is a Turkish heroic epic about a legendary 7th-century BC Saka ruler and his wars against the Iranians.
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh, known to Babylonians as ša nagba imuru, is an ancient Akkadian poem about Uruk's king, his friend Enkidu, and his failed quest for immortality.
Epic of King Gesar (གེ་སར)
Epic of King Gesar (Gesar of Ling, Mongolian Geser Khan): living Central Asian oral epic of a heaven-sent hero vanquishing monsters and unifying tribes, performed by Tibetan, Mongolian, and Tu bards and inscribed by UNESCO in 2009.
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.
Epigonii
Epigonii is a poem by Mihai Eminescu, first published in 1870 as an ars poetica contrasting the sincere writers of the past with his own cold generation.
Epigramas
Epigramas is a seminal early poetry collection by Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal. The short poems, written between 1950 and 1957, define the start of his later exteriorist poetics.
Epistles
The Epistles (Epistulae) are two books of verse letters in dactylic hexameter by the Roman poet Horace, his last major works, published between 19 and 8 BCE.
Epithalamion (poem)
Epithalamion is a 433-line marriage ode by Edmund Spenser, written in 1594 to celebrate his own wedding to Elizabeth Boyle and first printed in 1595 with Amoretti.
Epodes
The Epodes are a book of seventeen iambic poems by the Roman poet Horace, composed during the civil wars of 42–30 BCE and featuring Canidia, his best-known witch.
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.
Erinnerung an die Marie A.
"Erinnerung an die Marie A." ("Remembering Marie A.") is a lyric love poem by Bertolt Brecht, written in 1920 and first published in 1927 in his first collection, Hauspostille.
Erlkönig
Erlkönig is a 1782 ballad by Goethe in which a father rides through the night with his terror-stricken son, who dies in his father's arms.
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.
Espantapájaros
Espantapájaros is a 1932 poetry collection by the Argentine avant-garde poet Oliverio Girondo, remembered for its giant papier-mâché scarecrow paraded through Buenos Aires as publicity.
Espejo
Espejo, fully titled Espejo, poemas antiguos, is a 1933 book of poems by the Mexican writer Salvador Novo recalling his childhood and adolescence in direct, transparent language.
Espumas Flutuantes
Espumas Flutuantes (Floating Foams) is an 1870 poetry collection by the Brazilian Romantic poet Castro Alves, printed in Bahia and the only book he published while alive.
Estuans intrinsecus
Estuans intrinsecus, also known as the Confession of Golias, is a famous twelfth-century Latin goliardic poem by the anonymous Archpoet, written at Pavia in 1163 and later set by Carl Orff in his Carmina Burana.
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.
Éthiopiques
Éthiopiques is the title of three works: a 1956 poetry collection by Senegalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor, a Dakar journal founded in 1975, and Heliodorus's ancient Greek novel.
Eu e Outras Poesias
Eu e Outras Poesias, shortened to Eu, is the only book of poetry by Brazilian poet Augusto dos Anjos, self-published in Rio de Janeiro in 1912.
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.