"This Wide Whisper Round My Head" In Memoriam and the Complexity of Memory

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  • Charles I. Armstrong

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https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.65

Abstract

Lord Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam A. H. H. is, one feels safe to say, a poem of memory. For rarely has the memory of a friend been given such an illustrious, elevated poetical treatment. Yet the question remains: how is the poem "of or "in" memory? And is the poem really about its propounded subject, Arthur Hallam, at all? Although the initial premise of In Memoriam seems simple enough, a closer reading of how recollection works in the text reveals considerable complexity in its dealings with memory.

Author Biography

Charles I. Armstrong

CHARLES I. ARMSTRONG is an associate professor at the English dept. of the Universtiy of Bergen, and a former visiting scholar at Wolfson College, at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife (Palgrave, 2003) and a number of scholarly articles, mainly focussing on poetry from romanticism to the present.

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2004-12-01

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Armstrong, C. I. (2004). "This Wide Whisper Round My Head" In Memoriam and the Complexity of Memory. Nordic Journal of English Studies, 3(3), 241–262. https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.65

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Vol. 3 No. 3 (2004)

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