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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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In Memoriam
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A.H.H. (1850) The poem by *Tennyson which appealed more than any other to Victorian sensibilities. An elegy for his friend Arthur Hallam (1811–33), it is a compilation of many short passages written in the intervening 17 years, reflecting the poet's varying response to the young man's death and to his own grief. The dominant tone is of doubt and despair, but it moves towards a more optimistic ending and Tennyson's readers were able to see it as an affirmation of faith.
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