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.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1850
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)