In Memoriam A.H.H.

About “In Memoriam A.H.H.”

In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is an elegy for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died of a cerebral haemorrhage in Vienna at the age of twenty-two in 1833. The poem is written in tetrametric lyrical verse and reflects on the loss of Hallam. It also addresses broader themes, including the cruelty of nature and the conflict between materialist science and declining Christian faith during the Victorian era. The work serves as an elegy, a requiem, and a dirge for a friend, a time, and a place. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)