Read-along
In Memoriam A.H.H.
The long work of grief.
- Next cohort
- Next cohort 31 December
- Length
- Length 21 days
Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote In Memoriam over seventeen years after the sudden death of his closest friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, in 1833. It is 133 cantos of elegy: raw loss, failed consolation, the failure of faith, two Christmases, and a slow, hard-won return to the world. Twenty-one cantos, one a day for three weeks.
Read one big book alongside other readers, a day at a time. Cohorts set off on the date above.
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Day by day
- Day 1. PrologueAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 2. IAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 3. IIAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 4. VIIAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 5. IXAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 6. XIAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 7. XXIAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 8. XXVIIAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 9. XXVIIIAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 10. XXXAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 11. LIVAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 12. LVAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 13. LVIAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 14. LXXVIIIAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 15. LXXXVIIAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 16. XCVAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 17. XCVIAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 18. CVAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 19. CVIAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 20. CXXXAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min
- Day 21. EpilogueAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1 min