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Arthur Henry Hallam (1 February 1811 – 15 September 1833) was an English poet, best known as the subject of a major work, In Memoriam, by his close friend and fellow poet Alfred Tennyson. Hallam has been described as the jeune homme fatal (French for "doomed young man") of his generation.
Mar 11, 2024 · Arthur Henry Hallam (born Feb. 1, 1811, London, Eng.—died Sept. 15, 1833, Vienna, Austria) was an English essayist and poet who died before his considerable talent developed; he is remembered principally as the friend of Alfred Tennyson commemorated in Tennyson’s elegy In Memoriam.
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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. [1] As a sustained exercise in tetrametric lyrical verse, Tennyson's poetical reflections extend beyond the meaning of the death of Hallam ...
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- United Kingdom
- 1850
- English
Arthur Henry Hallam (1 Feb. 1811 – 15 Sep. 1833) was an English poet born in Bedford Place, London. His parents were Julia Elton of Clevedon Court, Somerset, and historian, Henry Hallam was his father. He lived a tragically short life, a mere 22 years, and thus came to be known as the “fatal young man.”. Despite this, he left an impact on ...
Jan 1, 2013 · A Life Lived Quickly: Tennyson's Friend Arthur Hallam and His Legend. By M artin B locksidge The Tennyson Research Bulletin, 9/5 (November 2011). Edited by V alerie P urton, Essays in Criticism, Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 81–88, https://doi.org/10.1093/escrit/cgs023
- Jack Kolb
- 2013
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Arthur Henry Hallam (1 February 1811 – 15 September 1833), son of the historian Henry Hallam. Drawing of bust by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey. ‘I little dreamed how soon his name might become a sacred one’ (James Spedding) Arthur Henry Hallam died, of a cerebral haemorrhage, in a hotel room in Vienna on 15 September 1833, aged 22.
Jun 7, 2022 · “It is a deeply, too deeply painful subject”, he wrote to Gaskell, and though he expressed compassion for the Hallam family and Emily Tennyson, it was the world, he felt, that had suffered the...
