Description
By (author) Tennyson Alfred; Edited by Gray Erik
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The Eversley Edition text of the poem, accompanied by Erik Gray’s preface, full introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes.
- One illustration.
- A generous selection (new to the Third Edition) of background materials on In Memoriam‘s subject, Arthur Henry Hallam, as well as its literary and scientific contexts.
- Twelve contemporary reviews spanning 1850–55 (also new to this Third Edition) that suggest In Memoriam‘s initial reception.
- Eleven critical essays, five of them new to the Third Edition.
- A chronology, a selected bibliography and an index of first lines.
About the Series
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Biographical note
Erik Gray is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a specialist in Victorian poetry. His books include The Poetry of Indifference, Milton and the Victorians, and The Art of Love Poetry.
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