Lenore

Lenore is an English and German form ultimately derived from the Greek name Helene, meaning bright or torch, transmitted through the French Eleanor and its contracted form Leonore. It gained widespread literary recognition through Edgar Allan Poe's 1831 poem Lenore and his later poem The Raven, in which it became a byword for lost, mourned beauty. The name also appears in Gottfried August Bürger's influential German ballad Lenore from 1773, which helped establish it as a Romantic literary figure. Related forms include Eleanor, Leonora, Eleonora, and Nora.