Arthur Henry Hallam is remembered chiefly as the youthful friend of Alfred Tennyson, whose companionship with Hallam is celebrated in the laureate's elegy In Memoriam (1850). But during his brief life, Hallam numbered among his other friends such...
Arthur Henry Hallam (February 1, 1811 – September 15, 1833) was an English poet, best known as the subject of a major work by his best friend, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Hallam has been described as the jeune homme fatal of his generation. Hallam was born...
T. S. Eliot observes of Tennyson's In Memoriam that "its faith is a poor thing, but its doubt is a very intense experience" (200-201). Earlier in the same essay, he compares the poem to "the concentrated diary of a man confessing himself" (196). Together,...
The article explains the reasons why Arthur Henry Hallam attended Trinity College at Cambridge University, during the years 1828-31, instead of Christ Church College at Oxford University, where his father attended. Scholars have assumed his father intended Arthur to attend Cambridge, but the father...
In the following essay, Friedman examines “On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry, and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson.” He claims the essay demonstrates Hallam as an original and almost prescient critic, noting connections between Hallam's essay and modernism.
In the following essay, Flynn closely analyzes the influence of Hallam's ontological essay, “Theodicaea Novissima,” on Alfred Tennyson's eulogy to Hallam, In Memoriam.
