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A Life Lived Quickly - Tennyson's Friend Arthur Hallam and His Legend (Hardcover, New)
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A Life Lived Quickly - Tennyson's Friend Arthur Hallam and His Legend (Hardcover, New)
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Arthur Hallam's early death was the subject of Tennyson's
celebrated poem In Memoriam. As a result of its popularity, Hallam
became a legendary figure, very much accepted on Tennyson's terms
as being almost divinely gifted and of immense promise. While this
representation of Hallam has remained generally accepted, A Life
Lived Quickly' seeks both to supplement and challenge it, offering
a more detailed and objective portrait of the man. That Hallam has
a difficult relationship with his father (himself a famous literary
figure), suffered a mental breakdown during his first year at
Cambridge, and pursued an extremely fraught love affair with
Tennyson's sister in the face of opposition from both families, are
important but largely unknown aspects of his life. The author also
repudiates the often-made suggestion that Hallam and Tennyson may
have had a homosexual relationship. As well as examining Hallam's
published writings, the book makes liberal use of his letters, of
which a collected edition has been in existence since 1981, and
includes treatments of hitherto unpublished poems and more recently
discovered letters. Apart from presenting Arthur Hallam as a
complex and interesting character in his own right, the book offers
insight into the literary culture of early nineteenth-century
England. In devoting attention to Hallam's time at Eton and
Cambridge, the book also deals in detail with the experience of
being educated in those unreformed institutions.
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