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    A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Proem"
    A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Proem"
    A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Proem"
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    A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Proem"

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    A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Proem," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535838917
    A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Proem"

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      A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Proem" - Gale

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      Proem

      Alfred, Lord Tennyson

      1850

      Introduction

      Proem was originally published as the introductory passage to Alfred, Lord Tennyson's book-length poem In Memoriam A. H. H. The complete poem consists of 131 sections and was written over the course of seventeen years, capturing the development of the poet's grief over the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam. The influence of Hallam's death can be seen in several of Tennyson's poems, including Ulysses, Tithonus, The Two Voices, and Break, break, break.

      Tennyson met Hallam in the 1820s at Trinity College, Cambridge. Hallam was considered by his classmates to be one of the most promising scholars of the day, until his sudden death from a stroke in 1833, at age twenty-two. Hallam and Tennyson were close companions. They traveled through Europe together, and at the time of his death, Hallam was engaged to Tennyson's sister Emily.

      In Memoriam A. H. H. is considered one of the single most influential poems of the Victorian age. It was a favorite of Queen Victoria's and her husband Prince Albert and was so admired by the royal couple that Tennyson was appointed poet laureate the year the poem was published. Throughout the last half of the century, In Memoriam A. H. H. was frequently quoted in church sermons, due to Tennyson's masterful control of the language and the poem's mournful contemplation of humanity's relationship to the eternal. In modern times, the poem is seldom read in its 2,868-line entirety,

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