ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Although they met only twice, Queen Victoria greatly admired the works of Tennyson and she told him that his poem, a requiem for the poet’s friend Henry Hallam, provided her with great comfort.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tennyson’s In Memoriam is both a personal elegy for the death of his friend Arthur Hallam in 1833, as well as an expression of cosmic and universal grief. Hallam’s death became a catalyst in the poem for wider reflection on the destabilising scientific and industrial changes of the Victorian era.

Detailed explanation-3: -The defining poem of the Victorian age In Memoriam A.H.H. was written over a period of 17 years, from 1833 to 1850. Over the course of 133 cantos, it explores Alfred Lord Tennyson’s profound grief at the death of his close friend, Arthur Henry Hallam.

Detailed explanation-4: -The best-known poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, included “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and “Crossing the Bar.” His longer works included In Memoriam, inspired by his grief over the untimely death of a friend, and Idylls of the King, based on Arthurian legend.

Detailed explanation-5: -Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes, such as “Ulysses". “In Memoriam A.H.H.” was written to commemorate his friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and student at Trinity College, Cambridge, after he died of a stroke at the age of 22.