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
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
It is a compendium of old stories about the War and Enoch Arden.
From Time Magazine Archive
His wife waited a year and then remarried, only to have her first husband reappear like Enoch Arden.
From Time Magazine Archive
He opened in the character of "Rover" in "Wild Oats" and played in addition, "Extremes," "Enoch Arden," and "William" in "Black Eyed Susan."
From The Mormons and the Theatre or The History of Theatricals in Utah by Lindsay, John S.
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