By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
‘Eldorado’, a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49), was published in the Flag of Our Union in Boston in April 1849, just six months before Poe’s death. In ‘Eldorado’, a knight goes in search of Eldorado, that golden paradise. But the knight grows old without ever finding that fabled city. And then he meets a shade which tells him where he can find Eldorado. Before we offer some words of analysis, here’s the text of the poem.