'Next to the Bible, In Memoriam is my comfort.' Queen Victoria's reliance, after the death of Prince Albert, on Tennyson's 1850 elegy for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam - who died in Vienna in 1833 of a cerebral haemorrhage - epitomises its place at the heart of Victorian public and private life.
Alfred Tennyson's hugely influential 1850 elegy for Arthur Henry Hallam articulates the quintessential Victorian emotions of mourning and troubled faith.
