Enoch Arden

[ ahr-dn ]

noun

1. (italics) a narrative poem (1864) by Tennyson.
2. its hero.
3. a missing person who is presumed dead but is later found to be alive.

Example Sentences

The PostClassical Ensemble specializes in offbeat works, often including texts, so it was perfectly in keeping for the group to conclude its concert with Schoenberg’s “Ode to Napoleon,” which, like Strauss’s “Enoch Arden,” involves a vocal soloist declaiming quite a long text, in this case to energetic accompaniment from a string quartet, conducted by the PostClassical Ensemble’s warm music director, Angel Gil-Ordoñez.

From Washington Post

In the early 1980s, Rainer memorized all 900 lines of "Enoch Arden," Tennyson's epic poem, which she performed in Europe and the United States, including at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall.

From Los Angeles Times

No case involving construction of this phrase seems yet to have arisen to be decided by the courts; but the author of a narrative poem, like Owen Meredith's "Lucile" or Tennyson's "Enoch Arden," could probably prevent the transformation of his poetical work into equivalent prose; and a novelist would have probably a like protection in case of an attempt to duplicate or transform his story as a narrative poem.

From Project Gutenberg

The artist who moulds a masterpiece like "Enoch Arden" or "The Scarlet Letter" is not a writer of temporary fame.

From Project Gutenberg

To set children to work upon problems of this sort, to put them in the way of thinking and feeling for themselves, and that too even in the longer classics like "Evangeline," "Enoch Arden," "Silas Marner," etc., is to bring such studies into the realm of great culture-producing agencies.

From Project Gutenberg