In Memoriam
$120.16
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
9 May 2013
Summary
‘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 reac…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781108060523 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1108060528 |
| Author: | Alfred Tennyson |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 9 May 2013 |
| Weight: | 430g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry |
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Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809a1892) published his first two volumes of poems in 1842, establishing him as the leading poet of his generation. He is buried in Westminster Abbey. Christopher Ricks is Warren Professor of Humanities and codirector of the Editorial Institute at Boston University. He is the editor of six poetry collections, including “The Oxford Book of English Verse,”
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