We’ll read and discuss extracts from this moving elegy. We’ll consider Tennyson’s depiction of friendship, the English landscape, domestic scenes, and affections.
Exploring how Victorian readers and reviewers responded to the poem, we’ll ask what ways the poem laid the foundations for Tennyson’s laureateship? How does the poem address British identity, and questions of faith and theology?
We’ll explore some of the contexts of the poem and discuss the ways Tennyson draws from the tradition of elegists. We’ll examine the poem’s structure and ask why In Memoriam held a special place in the Victorian mind?
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has now been cancelled.
