{"product_id":"9781607780274","title":"Enoch Arden and Co.: 20+ poems, including Aylmer's Field, Sea Dreams, The Sailor Boy, The Voyage and more","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Enoch Arden\"\u003c\/b\u003e is a poem published in 1864 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, during his tenure as England's Poet Laureate.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe hero of the poem, fisherman turned merchant sailor Enoch Arden, leaves his wife Annie and three children to go to sea with his old captain, who is offering him work. Enoch had lost his job when he fell victim to an accident; in a manner that reflects the hero's masculine view of personal toil and hardship to support his family, Enoch Arden left his family to better serve them as a husband and father. However during his voyage he is shipwrecked and remains lost and missing for ten years.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHe finds upon his return from the sea that, after his long absence, his wife, who believed him dead, is married happily to another man, his childhood friend Philip (Annie has known both men since her childhood, thus the rivalry), and has a child by him. Enoch's life remains unfulfilled, with one of his children now dead, and his wife and remaining children now being cared for by his onetime rival.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTragically Enoch does not ever reveal to his wife and children that he is really alive, and dies of a broken heart.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe theme could be considered a variation on and antithesis to the Classical myth of Odyseus, who after an absence of ten years at sea found a faithful wife who had been loyally waiting for him.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e— Excerpted from \u003ci\u003eWikipedia, \u003c\/i\u003ethe free encyclopedia. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEnoch Arden\u003cbr\u003e   Aylmer's Field\u003cbr\u003e   Sea Dreams\u003cbr\u003e   The Grandmother\u003cbr\u003e   Northern Farmer\u003cbr\u003e   Miscellaneous \u003cbr\u003e   Tithonus\u003cbr\u003e   The Voyage\u003cbr\u003e   In The Valley of Cauteretz \u003cbr\u003e   The Flower \u003cbr\u003e   Requiescat\u003cbr\u003e   The Sailor Boy\u003cbr\u003e   The Islet \u003cbr\u003e   The Ringlet\u003cbr\u003e   A Welcome To Alexandra\u003cbr\u003e   Ode Sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition\u003cbr\u003e   A Dedication\u003cbr\u003e   Experiments\u003cbr\u003e   Boadicea\u003cbr\u003e   In Quantity \u003cbr\u003e   Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MobileReference","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177269575920,"sku":"9781607780274","price":0.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781607780274_p0.jpg?v=1763831952","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781607780274","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}