Tamerlane (poem)
1827 poem by Edgar Allan Poe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Tamerlane" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe that follows a fictionalized accounting of the life of a Turco-Mongol conqueror historically known as Tamerlane. The poem was 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's original version was 403 lines but trimmed down to 223 lines for its inclusion in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems.
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Tamerlane | |
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by Edgar Allan Poe | |
First published in | Tamerlane and Other Poems |
Publication date | 1827 |
Lines | 403 (later trimmed to 223) |
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