The language of grief, suffering, and loss is therefore a language of striving and inadequacy. Literature, in its unending ...

Tennyson described ‘In Memoriam’ as ‘rather the cry of the whole human race than mine’, and the poem achieved widespread acclaim as soon as it was published in 1850, cited by Queen Victoria as her ...

The poem, In Memoriam A.H.H., was published in 1850 and is dedicated to his friend, Arthur Henry Hallam. Mr Hallam, whose mother was Julia Elton of Clevedon Court, died of a cerebral haemorrhage in ...

Lord Tennyson Wikimedia Commons When Alfred, Lord Tennyson first saw the photograph that his friend Julia Margaret Cameron took of him in May 1865, he joked that he looked like a “dirty monk ...

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are strange books, a testament to their author’s defiant unconventionality. Through them, Lewis Carroll transformed popular culture, our ...

An 1862 photograph of Alfred Tennyson with wife Emily and sons Hallam and Lionel. His elder son was named after A.H. Hallam, commemorated in the long poem In Memoriam AHH.

Italo Calvino’s novella Invisible Cities is a hypnagogic reimagining of Marco Polo’s time in the court of Kublai Khan. Polo describes 55 impossible places – cities made of plumbing, free-floating, ...

Film legends Gene Hackman, James Earl Jones, Maggie Smith, Gena Rowlands and Donald Sutherland were honored during the Oscars’ In Memoriam segment at the 97th Academy Awards Sunday night in Los ...

Robert Frost’s poem “Hyla Brook” concludes with a resounding claim: “We love the things we love for what they are.” Frost’s greatest poems capture the details of his world as it was ...

On New Year’s Day, or thereabouts, I have the habit of reading “Ring out wild bells,” the Tennyson poem, from In Memoriam. In my book, it’s not only a great New Year’s poem — it’s a ...

In Memoriam: The Musicians We Lost in 2024 Hear songs from Quincy Jones, Melanie and Toby Keith. Share full article Published Dec. 20, 2024 Updated Dec. 23, 2024 ...