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minds of us his contemporaries"; "he had a genius for metaphysical analysis", "a peculiar clearness of perception", and an "always active mind"; an "angelic spirit", "he seemed to tread the earth as a spirit from some better world*; "his mighty spirit (beautiful and powerful as it had already grown), yet bore all the marks of youth, and growth, and ripening promise."
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his Spirit departed without Pain – The Physician endeavour’d to get any Blood from him – and on Examination it was the General Opinion that he could not have lived long – This was also Dr Holland’s opinion – The account I have endeavour’d to give you, is merely what I have been able to gather, but the family of course are in too great distress to enter into details —
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Gladstone hoped "that some part of what Hallam has written may be ... put into a more durable form ... his letters I think are worthy of permanent preservation". Hallam's father collected together many of his son's writings – excluding his letters and poems he thought unsuitable – and published them
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and lay down on the sofa, talking cheerfully all the time. Leaving his son reading in front of the fire, his father went out for a further stroll. He returned to find Hallam still on the sofa, apparently asleep apart from the position of his head. All efforts to rouse him were in vain. Arthur Hallam
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To his friends, Hallam's death came as "a loud and terrible stroke from the reality of things upon the faery building of our youth". They remembered him in vivid elegy: he had been "the most charming and the most promising' of his contemporaries; "his mind was more original & powerful than the
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I have just seen Mr Hallam, who begs I will tell you that he will write himself as soon as his Heart will let him. Poor Arthur had a slight attack of Ague – which he had often had – Order’d his fire to be lighted – and talked with as much cheerfulness as usual – He suddenly became insensible, and
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Hallam spent the 1830 Easter holidays with Tennyson in Somersby and declared his love for Emilia. Hallam and Tennyson planned to publish a book of poems together: Hallam told Mrs Tennyson that he saw this "as a sort of seal of our friendship". Hallam's father, however, objected, and Hallam's
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In February 1831, Tennyson's father died, with the result that Tennyson could no longer afford to continue at Cambridge. In August, Hallam wrote an enthusiastic article 'On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry, and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson' for the
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After leaving Eton in 1827 Hallam travelled on the continent with his family, and in Italy, he became inspired by its culture and fell in love with an English beauty, Anna Mildred Wintour, who inspired eleven of his poems.
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May that Being in whose hands are all the Destinies of Man – and who has promised to comfort all that Mourn – pour the Balm of Consolation on all the Families who are bowed down by this unexpected dispensation!
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received the news on 6 October: "When shall I see his like?" he wrote. "I walked upon the hills to muse upon this very mournful event, which cuts me to the heart. Alas for his family and his intended bride!"
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In February 1832, Hallam visited Emilia: 'I love her madly,' he wrote. She was charmed by his 'bright, angelic spirit and his gentle, chivalrous manner'. In July Tennyson and Hallam travelled to
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Your friend, Sir, and my much-loved Nephew, Arthur Hallam, is no more – it has pleased God to remove him from this his first scene of Existence, to that better world for which he was Created.
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and a few days rest were prescribed. By Sunday 15th, Hallam felt sufficiently better to take a short walk with his father in the evening. When he returned to the hotel he ordered some
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Tennyson said: "He would have been known, if he had lived, as a great man but not as a great poet; he was as near perfection as mortal man could be."
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At the desire of a most afflicted family, I write to you because they are unequal from the grief into which they have fallen to it themselves.
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That Hallam's death was a significant influence on Tennyson's poetry is clear. Tennyson dedicated one of his most popular poems to Hallam (
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In July 1833, Hallam visited Emilia. On 3 August, he left with his father for Europe. On 13 September, they went to
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He died at Vienna, on his return from Buda, by Apoplexy, and I believe his Remains come by Sea from Trieste.
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was privately published and printed in 1830. In the summer holidays, Tennyson and Hallam travelled to the
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after his late friend. Emilia Tennyson also named her elder son, Arthur Henry Hallam, in his honour.
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In the first week of October, Tennyson received a letter from Arthur Hallam's uncle, Henry Elton:
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have an immoral tendency'; Tennyson was to speak on 'Ghosts', but was, according to his son's
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Lang, C. Y. and Shannon Jr. The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson 1982 Clarendon Press Oxford
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Kolb, J. The Letters of Arthur Henry Hallam 1981 Ohio State University Press 0814203000
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Boston,: Ticknor and Fields, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library
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Martin, R. B. Tennyson; The Unquiet Heart 1983 Clarendon Press Oxford 0571118429
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Remains in verse and prose of Arthur Henry Hallam, with a preface and memoir .
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was "more written with the feeling of his loss upon me than many poems in
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Addressed to Alfred Tennyson Esqre: if Absent, to be opened by Mrs Tennyson
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Hallam and Tennyson became friends in April 1829. They both entered the
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Hallam, H. (ed.) Remains in Verse and Prose of Arthur Henry Hallam 1834
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observes, 'The friendship of Hallam and Tennyson was swift and deep'.
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A life lived quickly: Tennyson’s friend Arthur Hallam and his legend
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Tennyson broke the news to Emilia and caught her as she fainted.
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During the Christmas holidays, Hallam visited Tennyson's home in
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imitated the sun going behind a cloud and coming out again.
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who was planning a revolution against the tyranny of King
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Mr Hallam arrived this morning in 3 Princes Buildings.
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Hallam was born in London, the son of the historian
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Index


Francis Leggatt Chantrey
In Memoriam
Alfred Tennyson
Henry Hallam
Eton
prime minister
William Ewart Gladstone
Whiggish
James Milnes Gaskell
Trinity College, Cambridge
Christopher Ricks
Chancellor's Prize Poem Competition
Cambridge Apostles
Shelley
James Spedding
Somersby, Lincolnshire
Emilia
Pyrenees
General Torrijos
Ferdinand VII of Spain
Edward Moxon
the Rhine
conveyancer
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Vienna
Prague
Quinine
sack
stroke

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