| Lenore (poem) | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:J_D_Schubert_Leonore.jpg) Lenore and William riding on horseback, as depicted by Johann David Schubert. | |
| Folk tale | |
| Name | Lenore (poem) |
| Also known as | Ballade de Lénore; Leonora, Leonore, Ellenore |
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| Region | Germany |
| Published in | Göttinger Musenalmanach (1774), by Gottfried August Bürger |
| Related | The Deacon of the Dark River Sweet William's Ghost |
"Lenore", sometimes translated as "Leonora", "Leonore", or "Ellenore", is a poem written by German author Gottfried August Bürger in 1773, and published in 1774 in the Göttinger Musenalmanach.[1] "Lenore" is generally characterised as being part of the 18th-century Gothic ballads, and although the character that returns from its grave in the poem is not considered to be a vampire, the poem has been very influential on vampire literature.[2] William Taylor, who published the first English translation of the ballad, would later claim that "no German poem has been so repeatedly translated into English as 'Ellenore'".[3]
- ^ Garland, Henry; Mary Garland (1997). The Oxford Companion to German Literature. United States: Oxford University Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-19-815896-7.
- ^ Twitchell, James B. (1981). The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-8223-0789-1.
- ^ Summers, August Montague (1960). The Vampire, His Kith and Kin. Forgotten Books. p. 349. ISBN 978-1-60506-566-3. Retrieved 2010-09-10.