| In Memoriam | |
|---|---|
| by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | |
 Title page of 1st edition (1850) | |
| Original title | IN MEMORIAM A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Requiem, elegy |
| Rhyme scheme | abba |
| Publication date | 1850 |
| Lines | 2916 |
| Full text | |
 In Memoriam (Tennyson) at Wikisource | |
The poem In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is an elegy for his Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died of cerebral haemorrhage at the age of twenty-two years, in Vienna in 1833.[1] As a sustained exercise in tetrametric lyrical verse, Tennyson's poetical reflections extend beyond the meaning of the death of Hallam, thus, In Memoriam also explores the random cruelty of Nature seen from the conflicting perspectives of materialist science and declining Christian faith in the Victorian era (1837–1901),[2] the poem thus is an elegy, a requiem, and a dirge for a friend, a time, and a place.[3]
- ^ In Memoriam. London: Edward Moxon. 1850. Retrieved 13 October 2021 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Early Victorian Verse", The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 18, p. 455.
- ^ Andrew Hass; David Jasper; Elisabeth Jay (2007). The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology. Oxford University Press. p. 607. ISBN 978-0-19-927197-9.