LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Arthur Henry Clough
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Arthur Henry Hallam
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Arthur Henry Williams
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John Milton
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Detailed explanation-1: -“In Memoriam” was intended as an elegy, or a poem in memory and praise of one who has died. As such, it contains all of the elements of a traditional pastoral elegy such as Milton’s “Lycidas, ” including ceremonial mourning for the dead, praise of his virtues, and consolation for his loss.
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: -The poem “In Memoriam A.H.H.” (1850) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is an elegy for his Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died of cerebral haemorrhage at the age of twenty-two years, in Vienna in 1833.
Detailed explanation-4: -Arthur Henry Hallam was a 19th century English poet who lived a tragically short life. A close friend, the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, spent 17 years composing a major poem in his honour, simply called In Memoriam A.H.H.