Alfred Lord Tennyson — In Memoriam

London, Edward Moxon & Co. 1864. Leather. A leatherbound fifteenth edition of this elegy by English poet Alfred Tennyson. Fifteenth edition. An elegy for the author's Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died of cerebral haemorrhage at the age of twenty-two years, in Vienna in 1833. As a sustained exercise in tetrametric lyrical verse, Tennyson's poetical reflections extend beyond the meaning of death and explores the random cruelty of Nature, seen from the conflicting perspectives of science and the declining Christian faith in the Victorian era. Written by Alfred Tennyson, an English poet who was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Bound in full green crushed morocco. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark. Small cracks to the joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the extremities and endpapers with contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpaper. Good . Ill.: None. Good .