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Ent
Ents (Sindarin Onodrim) are Tolkien's giant tree-shepherds of Middle-earth, created at Yavanna's request, led by Treebeard of Fangorn, and named from Old English 'giant'.
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.
Enzai: Falsely Accused (冤罪)
Enzai: Falsely Accused (冤罪) is Langmaor's 2002 yaoi visual novel, the first BL game officially localized into English (JAST USA, 2006). Set in 19th-century France, it follows Guys, falsely imprisoned for murder, across eleven endings.
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.
Éomer
Éomer (Éadig) is a Rohan character in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Third Marshal of the Riddermark, nephew of Théoden, later King of Rohan for 65 years; his name comes from Beowulf.
Éowyn
Éowyn is a noblewoman of Rohan in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings who rides to war disguised as Dernhelm and slays the Witch-king.
Ephemeris belli Troiani
Ephemeris belli Troiani is a Latin narrative of the Trojan War attributed to Dictys of Crete, a Greek companion of Idomeneus, translated by Lucius Septimius.
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.
Epilogue (πίλογος)
Epilogue (from Greek epílogos, 'conclusion of a speech'): a concluding section of a play, novel, or poem that rounds out the work, often reporting characters' later fates; distinct from afterword, coda, and denouement.
Epistle
An epistle is a letter, or in literary usage a work written in letter form, most notably the epistolary novel, which peaked in the 18th century.
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.
Epistolary novel
An epistolary novel, a form of epistolary fiction, is a novel told through letters or documents, which flourished in the eighteenth century with Richardson's Pamela and Rousseau's The New Héloïse.
Epistolary prose
Epistolary prose is prose fiction written in the form of letters or correspondence, a genre that flowered in the eighteenth century with works like Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa.
Epitaph
Epitaph: a short inscription or poem honoring the dead, carved on a headstone or written as if for a tomb. From Greek epitaphios; ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman origins; also a literary genre from Simonides to Spoon River Anthology.
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.
Éponine
Éponine is a character in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables (1862), the Thénardiers' indulged daughter who falls into poverty, loves Marius unrequitedly, and dies at the barricade; famous as the mezzo-soprano role singing "On My Own" in the musical.
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.