'Next to the Bible, In Memoriam is my comfort.' Queen Victoria's reliance, after the death of Prince Albert, on this poem by Alfred Tennyson (1809–92), Poet Laureate from 1850, epitomises its place at the heart of Victorian public and private life. The most famous poem of its age and an instant bestseller, In Memoriam was an elegy for Arthur Henry Hallam, Tennyson's closest friend, who had died young in Vienna in 1833. Its distinctive iambic tetrameter stanzas - begun days after the news reached Tennyson, and reworked for the next seventeen years - explore the nature of grief, religious consolation, and profound anxieties about man's relationship with nature, articulating the quintessential Victorian emotions of mourning and troubled faith. This reissue is of the third edition, published in 1850, the same year as the first.
| ISBN: | 9781108060523 |
| Publication date: | 9th May 2013 |
| Author: | Alfred Tennyson |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 |
'Next to the Bible, In Memoriam is my comfort.' Queen Victoria's reliance, after the death of Prince Albert, on this poem by Alfred Tennyson (1809–92), Poet Laureate from 1850, epitomises its place at the heart of Victorian public and private life. The most famous poem of its age and an instant bestseller, In Memoriam was an elegy for Arthur Henry Hallam, Tennyson's closest friend, who had died young in Vienna in 1833. Its distinctive iambic tetrameter stanzas - begun days after the news reached Tennyson, and reworked for the next seventeen years - explore the nature of grief, religious consolation, and profound anxieties about man's relationship with nature, articulating the quintessential Victorian emotions of mourning and troubled faith. This reissue is of the third edition, published in 1850, the same year as the first.
In Memoriam features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
In Memoriam is available in Hardback, Paperback
In Memoriam was written by Alfred Tennyson and published by Cambridge University Press
In Memoriam has 224 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry series
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