“In Memoriam,” a long poem of 133 cantos of varying length, each written in four-line iambic tetrameter stanzas, was penned as a tribute to a college friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, who had died ...

When we discovered Tennyson, what impressed us was that when he, too, was relatively young, he had lost his friend, which had led him to write his poem ‘In Memoriam A.H.H.’.

Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in this long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be clasped no more - Behold me, for ...

Alfred Tennyson’s passionate book-length elegy was once among the most popular poems in English. Today, it shows us how soulful art can stir us to life and stave off banality.

Sinn Fein, in pulling down the Assembly, might carefully ponder the prescient words of Lord Alfred Tennyson in the following verse from his poem In Memoriam in relation to their own "slowly dying ...