Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “In Memoriam” (original) (raw)

Introductory Materials

• Biographical materials (sitemap)
• Tennyson: A Brief Biography
• A Tennyson Chronology

Literature

• Works
• Complete text of the poem
• Theme and Subject
• Plot and narrative structure
• Experimental Form: The Hypertextuality of In Memoriam
• Genre, mode, and style
• Imagery -- more than 20 examples linked to their appearances in individual sections
• Setting and description
• Literary relations: sources, influences, confluences
• Victorian authors

Cultural Contexts (sitemaps for sections outside individual authors = ***)

• In Memoriam and Victorian art — illustrations and relation of Victorian medievalism
• Social and political themes and contexts
• Religion — themes and contexts
• Science, particularly geology and Darwinian evolution
• Victorian political history***
• Victorian social history***

Other Resources

• E.D.H. Johnson’s The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry (Princeton, 1952) — complete text in the Victorian Web
• James R. Kincaid’s Tennyson’s Major Poems (Yale UP, 1975) — complete text in the Victorian Web
• Leading questions

Victorian Web Authors Alfred Lord Tennyson

Created 12 September 2015
Last modified 11 November 2025