This Second Edition of Tennyson's In Memo-riam represents a significant revision of its predecessor, taking into account major changes in the study of Tennyson's works in recent years. The editor has written a substantial Introduction that provides students with a historical and contex-tual overview, from In Memoriam's genesis to its publi-cation and reception. The text of the poem is again that of theEversley Edition of Tennyson's Works, published in 1901 8; it isaccompanied by explanatory annotations.

Preface

Introduction

The Text of In Memoriam

Criticism

  Hallam, Lord Tennyson - In Memoriam

  Edgar Finley Shannon, Jr.· The Pinnacle of Success: In Memoriam

  A. C. Bradley· [The Structure and Effect of In Memoriam]

  T. S. Eliot· In Memoriam

  Eleanor Bustin Mattes· The Challenge of Geology to Belief in Immortality and a God of Love

  Basil Willey · [Tennyson's Honest Doubts]

  Alan Sinfield· Diction: Simple Words and Complex Meanings

  Christopher Ricks· In Memoriam, 1850

  Timothy Pehason· [Reading In Memoriam]

  Alan Sinfield· The Strategy of In Memoriam

  Jeff Nunokawa· In Memoriam and the Extinction of the Homosexual

  W. David Shaw· The Paradox of Genre: Impact and Tremor in Tennyson's Elegies

  Sarah Gates· Poetics, Metaphysics, Genre: The Stanza Form of In Memoriam

Alfred Tennyson: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography

Index of First Lines