Tamerlane & Other Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book Tamerlane & Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, Boreas Classics
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Author: Edgar Allan Poe ISBN: 1230000235025
Publisher: Boreas Classics Publication: April 22, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 1230000235025
Publisher: Boreas Classics
Publication: April 22, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

"Tamerlane" is an epic poem by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the 1827 collection Tamerlane and Other Poems. That collection, with only 50 copies printed, was not credited with the author's real name but by "A Bostonian." The poem itself follows a Turkic conqueror named Tamerlane. The name is a Latinized version of "Timur Lenk", the 14th century warlord, though the poem is not historically accurate.  Tamerlane ignores the young love he has for a peasant in order to achieve power. On his deathbed, he regrets this decision to create "a kingdom, in exchange, for a broken-heart."

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"Tamerlane" is an epic poem by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the 1827 collection Tamerlane and Other Poems. That collection, with only 50 copies printed, was not credited with the author's real name but by "A Bostonian." The poem itself follows a Turkic conqueror named Tamerlane. The name is a Latinized version of "Timur Lenk", the 14th century warlord, though the poem is not historically accurate.  Tamerlane ignores the young love he has for a peasant in order to achieve power. On his deathbed, he regrets this decision to create "a kingdom, in exchange, for a broken-heart."

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