Tennyson's In Memoriam (In Our Time)
1850 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson's long poem In Memoriam.In 1850, shortly before his appointment as Poet Laureate, Tennyson published a work which many critics regard as his masterpiece. In Memoriam A.H.H. was written in tribute to a close friend, Arthur Hallam, who had died seventeen years earlier. The two had met while at universit
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Around 1850
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)