Cover of In memoriam

In memoriam

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

First published
1850
Reading level
Plain English
Price
Free

About the book

"In Memoriam A.H.H." by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson is an elegy published in 1850. Written over seventeen years following the sudden death of his Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam in 1833, this 133-canto poem explores profound grief while grappling with Victorian-era tensions between emerging materialist science and declining Christian faith. Through its distinctive four-line stanzas, Tennyson contemplates mortality, nature's apparent cruelty, and the struggle between doubt and hope, ultimately creating a work that transcends personal loss to address universal questions about existence and belief.

  • Hallam, Arthur Henry, 1811-1833

Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #70950. In memoriam on Wikipedia.

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