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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 Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- 1850
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.
- Jack Kolb
- 2013
Learn about the life and works of Arthur Henry Hallam, a poet and critic of the Cambridge Apostles group. Explore his poetry and prose, and his influence on Tennyson's In Memoriam.
Arthur Henry Hallam (1811-1833) was a Cambridge friend and fiancé of Alfred Tennyson, who immortalised him in his poem In Memoriam. Learn about his life, character, achievements and legacy in this biography by Martin Blocksidge.
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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...
