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A character by the name of Lenore, thought to be a deceased wife, is central to Poe's poem "The Raven" (1845). Roman Dirge created a comic book series in 1998 inspired by the poem, involving the comedic misadventures of Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl. Hikaru Utada 's 2004 song "Kremlin Dusk" makes a reference to Lenore, as well as other ...
Lenore had a profound effect on the development of Romantic literature throughout Europe [10] and a strong influence on the English ballad-writing revival of the 1790s. [11] According to German language scholar John George Robertson, [8] [Lenore] exerted a more widespread influence than perhaps any other short poem in the literature of the world.
—Edgar Allan Poe "Not the least obeisance made he" (7:3), as illustrated by Gustave Doré (1884) "The Raven" follows an unnamed narrator on a dreary night in December who sits reading "forgotten lore" by the remains of a fire as a way to forget the death of his beloved Lenore. A "tapping at [his] chamber door" reveals nothing, but excites his soul to "burning". The tapping is repeated ...
Molmerswende. Died. 8 June 1794. (1794-06-08) (aged 46) Göttingen. Gottfried August Bürger (31 December 1747 – 8 June 1794) was a German poet. His ballads were very popular in Germany. His most noted ballad, Lenore, found an audience beyond readers of the German language in an English and Russian adaptation and a French translation.
1960–1970. Notable work. The Love Book (1966) Word Alchemy (1967) Movement. Beat Generation, Hippie, Diggers (theater) Parent. Aben Kandel (Father) Lenore Kandel (January 14, 1932, New York City – October 18, 2009, San Francisco, California) was an American poet, affiliated with the Beat Generation and Hippie counterculture.
Ulalume. " Ulalume " (/ ˈuːləluːm /) is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847. Much like a few of Poe's other poems (such as "The Raven", "Annabel Lee", and "Lenore"), "Ulalume" focuses on the narrator's loss of his beloved due to her death. Poe originally wrote the poem as an elocution piece and, as such, the poem is known for its ...
Keeshig-Tobias was born Lenore Keeshig in Wiarton, Ontario in 1950, the eldest of ten children of Keitha (Johnston) and Donald Keeshig. [4] Keeshig-Tobias credits her parents with raising her as a storyteller and with a love of poetry. Due to her mother's interest in poetry, Keeshig-Tobias' personal name came from Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "The ...
Symphonic poem. A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source. The German term Tondichtung (tone poem) appears to have been first used by the composer Carl Loewe in 1828.