We’ll read and discuss extracts from this moving elegy. We’ll consider Tennyson’s depiction of friendship, the English landscape, domestic scenes, and affections.
Exploring how Victorian readers and reviewers responded to the poem, we’ll ask what ways the poem laid the foundations for Tennyson’s laureateship? How does the poem address British identity, and questions of faith and theology?
We’ll explore some of the contexts of the poem and discuss the ways Tennyson draws from the tradition of elegists. We’ll examine the poem’s structure and ask why In Memoriam held a special place in the Victorian mind?
There will be breaks for coffee and lunch. Please bring your own coffee/tea and lunch.
Payment can be made by bank transfer, cheque or cash on the day. Cheques to be made out to the individual course leader.
