Enoch Arden
Americannoun
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(italics) a narrative poem (1864) by Tennyson.
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its hero.
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a missing person who is presumed dead but is later found to be alive.
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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 ● Dec. 30, 2014
His wife waited a year and then remarried, only to have her first husband reappear like Enoch Arden.
From Time Magazine Archive
Taking Linda to the movies, plying her with goodies, the doctor made such an impression on the young matron that she decided to get an Enoch Arden divorce.
From Time Magazine Archive
This time Father Claude Rains is a sort of early-bird Enoch Arden, vagabonding back to mother and the girls after 20 years of French leave just as mother is fixing to marry again.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Enoch Arden came back from his desert island, "He like a lover down through all his blood Drew in the dewy, meadowy morning breath Of England, blown across her ghostly wall."
From Views and Reviews by Henry James
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