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Arthur Henry Hallam (1 February 1811 – 15 September 1833) was an English poet, best known as the subject of a major work, In Memoriam, by his close friend and fellow poet Alfred Tennyson. Hallam has been described as the jeune homme fatal (French for "doomed young man") of his generation.
Arthur Henry Hallam was an English essayist and poet who died before his considerable talent developed; he is remembered principally as the friend of Alfred Tennyson commemorated in Tennyson’s elegy In Memoriam. Hallam was the son of the English historian Henry Hallam. He met Tennyson at Trinity.
The poem In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is an elegy for his Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died of cerebral haemorrhage at the age of twenty-two years, in Vienna in 1833.
Jan 1, 2013 · In 1969 T. H. Vail Motter wrote to Cecil Lang asking for a young graduate student who might help him with his renewed work on Arthur Henry Hallam. Motter, who had edited the seminal edition of Hallam's Writings in 1943, had not worked on Hallam for many years.
The early Victorian writer Arthur Henry Hallam (1811-1833). Hallam was a poet and critic of infinite promise. He was the central figure in a group of intellectuals known as the Cambridge Apostles, which included among its members the young Alfred Tennyson.
Arthur Henry Hallam died, of a cerebral haemorrhage, in a hotel room in Vienna on 15 September 1833, aged 22. He was at the time on a European tour with his father, Henry. Arthur’s body was returned to England and was interred in the vaults of his mother’s family, the Eltons, in Clevedon church in Somerset, in January 1834.
Arthur Henry Hallam died at the age of twenty-two without having written any major poetry, yet he left behind unmistakable evidence of literary ability that, had he lived, might...
