VIDEO : Leonard Cohen Died In His Sleep

Songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen died in his sleep after a fall in his Los Angeles home in the middle of the night, his manager has said. Cohen, music's man of letters whose songs fused religious imagery with themes of redemption and sexual desire, died on Nov. "As I write this I?m thinking of my father?s unique blend of self-deprecation and dignity, his approachable elegance, his charisma without audacity, his old-world gentlemanliness and the hand-forged tower of his work," Adam Cohen wrote. Before long, critics were comparing him with Bob Dylan for the lyrical force of his songwriting.