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Literature/Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A.H.H.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1849

Tennyson's long elegy in many short sections for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died in 1833, moving from grief and doubt toward faith.

Start reading131 cantos, about 19,000 words

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I held it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things.
Canto IIn context
- Change
- Character
I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
Canto VIn context
- Emotion
- Writing
‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.
In contextOften credited to Augustine of Hippo
- Love
So runs my dream: but what am I?
An infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light:
And with no language but a cry.
Canto LIIIIn context
- Life & Death
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Canto XCIVIn context
- Faith
- Religion

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