Tennyson and In Memoriam On this day in 1833 Arthur Henry Hallam (left) died at the age of twenty-two; in 1850, he would be eulogized in Tennyson's In Memoriam A.H.H.:
. . . I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
"Hallam's review is important not only for its analysis of Tennyson's poetry but for its definition of a visual sensibility in nineteenth-century poetry that Hallam calls 'the picturesque.'"
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