ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Arthur Henry Hallam (1 February 1811 – 15 September 1833) was an English poet, best known as the subject of a major work, In Memoriam, by his close friend and fellow poet Alfred Tennyson. Hallam has been described as the jeune homme fatal (French for “doomed young man") of his generation.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Memoriam A.H.H. is the extended, fragmentary elegy that Tennyson wrote for his closest friend Arthur Henry Hallam, after Hallam’s sudden death at age 22.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hallam and Tennyson met at Cambridge in 1829, and formed a very close relationship, that may have been homosexual. They both were members of the exclusive Cambridge Apostles, a debating society whose members over the years have included the major figures of Britain’s nineteenth and twentieth century history.

Detailed explanation-4: -At Cambridge, Tennyson met Arthur Hallam and William Henry Brookfield, who became his closest friends. His first publication was a collection of “his boyish rhymes and those of his elder brother Charles” entitled Poems by Two Brothers, published in 1827.