Enoch Arden

For other uses, see Enoch Arden (disambiguation).

Illustration for "Enoch Arden" in The Leisure Hour (1864)

Enoch Arden is a narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in 1864 during his tenure as British poet laureate.[1] The story on which it was based was provided to Tennyson by Thomas Woolner.[citation needed] The poem lends its name to a principle in law that after being missing for a certain number of years (typically seven) a person may be declared dead for purposes of remarriage and inheritance of their survivors.[2]

  1. ^ Tennyson, Alfred (1864). Enoch Arden, etc. London: Edward Moxon & Co. pp. 1–51.
  2. ^ "Enoch Arden doctrine". Legal Information Institute. Cornell Law School. October 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2023.