In Memoriam

In Memoriam is a vast poem inspired by the grief Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) felt at the untimely death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam (1811-1833). As the poet seeks for the meaning of life and death and attempts to come to terms with his sense of loss, the poem touches on many philosophical topics of the Victorian era. Lord Tennyson anonymously released the poem under the Latin title "In Memoriam A.H.H. Obiit MDCCCXXXIII" (In Memoriam A.H.H. 1833) after seventeen years of composing, writing, and revising from 1833 to 1850. Furthermore, following the poem's literary, artistic, and commercial success, Tennyson expanded on it, adding Canto LIX: 'O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me' to the 1851 edition and Canto XXXIX: 'Old warder of these buried bones' to the 1871 edition. Unmissable read and a powerful, moving and deeply poignant extended elegy by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This edition is an original 1850 text (first edition).