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G. J. Askins - Bookseller
New Lebanon, NY, USA
'Next to the Bible, In Memoriam is my comfort.' Queen Victoria's reliance, after the death of Prince Albert, on this poem by Alfred Tennyson (1809-92), Poet Laureate from 1850, epitomises its place at the heart of Victorian public and private life. The most famous poem of its age and an instant bestseller, In Memoriam was an elegy for Arthur Henry Hallam, Tennyson's closest friend, who had died young in Vienna in 1833. Its distinctive iambic tetrameter stanzas - begun days after the news reached Tennyson, and reworked for the next seventeen years - explore the nature of grief, religious consolation, and profound anxieties about man's relationship with nature, articulating the quintessential Victorian emotions of mourning and troubled faith. This reissue is of the third edition, published in 1850, the same year as the first.
- PID: 10038446889
- Publisher: The Nonesuch Press
- Date Published: 1933
- Seller: G. J. Askins - Bookseller
Description: 7x11 1/2.
Condition: Good. No Jacket
Notes: 148 page hardcover. Limited/numbered finely printed edition-this being 1265 of 2000. Exterior is worn at edges and top and bottom spine. Interior has prior owner gift inscriptions. Beautifully printed by Nonesuch on Van Gelder paper. Some pages uncut. However, this is a reading copy, not a collectors copy. Paper covered board has worn appearance-so buy for content, a poem in memory of a friend.