In Memoriam

First published in 1850, this long elegy is a sequence of lyrics written after the sudden death of Tennyson's friend Arthur Henry Hallam in 1833. The numbered sections move through years of grief: the return of Christmases, visits to places they had known, doubts about faith and the afterlife, and reflections on nature, geology, and the survival of love. Hallam is addressed, remembered, and gradually placed in a larger order the speaker tries to accept. The poem is personal mourning rather than a narrative biography, using a repeating stanza to think through loss, time, and what remains of belief after a particular death.

Quarter bound in black leather with green cloth boards. Red endleaves patterned in black. Pale grey slipcase.