"In Memoriam"
ENNYSON’S "In Memoriam" is a monument of a great friendship, Tennyson and Arthur Hallam were very dear friends, They were about the same: age, and had been at Cambridge together. They had the same tastes and the same outlook on life. Both were poets. Arthur Hallam impressed his contemporaries as a young man with a splendid future. "I have not seen his like,’ said the young Gladstone, who was a close friend, so that when Hallam died suddenly at the age of 22, his circle felt that not only they themselves, but society, had lost something very precious. The effect on Tennyson was well-nigh shattering. He was plunged into deep sorrow; all joy went out of his life, and he longed for death. This sorrow coloured Tennyson's life for a long while, The writing of "In Memoriam," his tribute to Hallam, was spread over seventeen years. In this long poem Tennyson not only wrote of his personal sorrow; he considered the sorrow 2 the world and problems of life and death, doubt and belief. Thus two strains run through "In Memoriam," the personal and the general-the &rief of the poet for the loss of his greatest friend, and what a critic has described as " the experience of a soul as it contemplates lite and death, as it finds or misses comfort in the face of nature, as it struggles through doubt to faith or through anguish to peace."-(" Poetry Hour (No. 6): The Elegy, 2YA, April 11.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 97, 2 May 1941, Page 5
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