In Memoriam

Alfred Tennyson

Begin with section XXVII, keeping the familiar loved-and-lost lines alongside the stanza’s earlier statement of sorrow. For the honest-doubt passage, use section XCIV in this checked 1850 edition; Bartlett cites it as XCVI. Read its surrounding account of questioning and conduct rather than assuming that two lines settle the poem’s view of belief. Both selected anthology excerpts match under limited case, punctuation and spacing comparison. The numbering difference is retained explicitly, and the printed publication year does not date every section’s composition.

Who it suits

Readers seeking the larger elegiac setting behind quotations about love, loss, doubt and faith.

Reading experience

Moderate to demanding; a long sequence of short verse sections with religious questioning and grief. This is an Edsverb editorial guide, not a measured reading score.

The edition

Edition

London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1850; English transcription

Language

English

Publisher

Edward Moxon

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