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x Tamerlane

Tamerlane

"Tamerlane" is a fictional character featured in Edgar Allan Poe's poem of the same title, based on Timur, the 14th century Turko-Mongol conqueror and founder of the Timurid Empire.

x Enoch Arden

Enoch Arden

"Enoch Arden" is the title fictional character of Alfred Tennyson's poem "Enoch Arden". In the poem, Arden is a fisherman turned sailor.

x Great Rumpuscat

Of The Awefull Battle Of The Pekes And The Pollicles Together With Some Account Of The Participation Of the Pugs and the Poms, And The Intervention Of The Great Rumpuscat

The Great Rumpuscat is a character in T. S. Eliot's book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The Great Rumpuscat is the protagonist of the poem "Of The Awefull Battle Of The Pekes And The Pollicles Together With Some Account Of The Participation Of...

x Orgoglio

The Faerie Queene

Orgoglio is a literary character in Edmund Spenser's famous epic "The Faerie Queen". He appears in the seventh canto as a beast and attacks the main character, Redcrosse, who symbolizes the ultimate Christian knight, during a moment of weakness. ...

x Tam O'Shanter

Tam o' Shanter

x Annabel Lee

Annabel Lee

"Annabel Lee" is the title fictional character of Edgar Allan Poe's poem of the same name.

x Aegisthus

Odyssey

In Greek mythology, Aegisthus (Ancient Greek: Αἴγισθος ; also transliterated as Aegisthos) was the son of Thyestes and of Thyestes' daughter, Pelopia. Thyestes felt he had been deprived of the Mycenean throne unfairly by his brother, Atreus. The two...

x Laertes

Odyssey

Laertes ( /leɪˈɜrtiːz/) is a character in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. His name is taken from the father of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. Laertes is the son of Polonius and the brother of Ophelia. In the final scene, he kills Hamlet with a...

x Helen

Odyssey

In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy (in Greek, Ἑλένη, Helénē), also known as Helen of Sparta, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda (or Nemesis), step-daughter of King Tyndareus, wife of Menelaus and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her...

x Euryclea

Odyssey

In Greek mythology, Eurycleia - Εὐρύκλεια, Eurýkleia, or Euryclea (also known as Antiphata - Ἀντιφάτη in other traditions), is the daughter of Ops and granddaughter of Peisenor, as well as the wet-nurse of Odysseus. As a girl she was bought by...

x Agamemnon

Odyssey

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαμέμνων; modern Greek: Αγαμέμνονας, "very steadfast") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes...

x Menelaus

Odyssey

In Greek mythology, Menelaus (Ancient Greek: Μενέλαος, Menelaos) was a legendary king of Mycenaean (pre-Dorian) Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, and a central figure in the Trojan War. He was the son of Atreus and Aerope, and brother of...

x Alcinous

Odyssey

Alcinous or Alkínoös (Gr. Ἀλκίνοος) was, in Greek mythology, a son of Nausithous, or of Phaeax (son of Poseidon and Corcyra), and father of Nausicaa, Halius, Clytoneus and Laodamas with Arete. His name literally means "mighty mind". He married his...

x Tiresias

Odyssey

In Greek mythology, Tiresias (Greek: Τειρεσίας, also transliterated as Teiresias) was a blind prophet of Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph...

Metamorphoses

x Arete

Odyssey

In Greek mythology, Queen Arete (Greek: Ἀρήτη, Arêtê) of Scheria was the wife of Alcinous and mother of Nausicaa and Laodamas. Arete is a descendant of Poseidon, who, making love to Periboea, begot Nausithous, who in turn had two sons, Rhexenor and...

x Clytemnestra

Odyssey

Clytemnestra or Clytaemnestra (pronounced /ˌklaɪtəmˈniːstrə/; Greek: Κλυταιμνήστρα, [klytai̯mnɛ̌ːstra]), in ancient Greek legend, was the wife of Agamemnon, king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae or Argos. In the Oresteia by Aeschylus, she was...

x Nausicaa

Odyssey

Nausicaa (Greek: Ναυσικάα/Ναυσικᾶ /nɔːˈsɪkiə/; also rendered Nausicaä, Nausikaa) is a character in Homer's Odyssey (Odýsseia). She is the daughter of King Alcinous (Alkínoös) and Queen Arete of Phaeacia. Her name, in Greek, means "excelling in ships...

x Tom O' Bedlam

Tom o' Bedlam

The character from the poem and the many songs derived from the poem.

x William II of Sicily

The Divine Comedy

x Walt Whitman

A Supermarket in California

Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most...

x Federico García Lorca

A Supermarket in California

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (Spanish pronunciation: [feðeˈɾiko ɣarˈθi.a ˈlorka]; 5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an...

x Daphne

Epigoni

Daphne was one of the daughters of the blind soothsayer Tiresias (not to be confused with the nymph Daphne).
In the tale of the second Theban war, the Epigoni captured Daphne and dedicated her to the service of the sanctuary at Delphi. It is said...

x Beowulf

Beowulf

Beowulf is a fictional character of the swords and sorcery genre published by DC Comics. The character debuted in Beowulf: Dragon Slayer #1 (May 1975), and was created by Michael Uslan and Ricardo Villamonte. The character is based on the Anglo...

x Grendel's mother

Beowulf

Grendel's mother (Old English: Grendles mōðor) is one of three antagonists (along with Grendel and the dragon) in the work of Old English literature of anonymous authorship, Beowulf (c. 700-1000 AD). She is never given a name in the text. The nature...

x Grendel

Beowulf

Grendel is one of three antagonists, along with Grendel's mother and the dragon, in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf (AD 700–1000). Grendel is usually depicted as a monster, though this is the subject of scholarly debate. In the poem, Grendel is...

x Eagles

A Poem for a Poet

"A Poet is a Clinton D. Powell"

x Angels

A Poem for a Poet

"A Poet is a Clinton D. Powell"

x Rain I remember - From My Ramblings...

Satya Jell

x Stood higher after every fall - From My Ramblings...

Satya Jell

x Flame higher I - From My Ramblings...

Satya Jell