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Edited by Jack Kolb <5The Letterê of Arthur Henry Mai lam $45.00 THE LETTERS OF ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM Edited by Jack Kolb Hallam is best remembered as the subject of what is, certainly, the most personal, and one of the most moving, elegies in English literature, Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam—a poem that com memorates and celebrates the estimable qualities of a gifted young man who died prematurely in 1833, at age twenty-two, while traveling with his father in Europe, and whose personality and character, ironically enough, were to be persistently and in creasingly obscured and distorted in the century following his death by the peculiar circumstances in which his literary "remains" were first pub lished, and by the injudicious expurgations made by Hallam Tennyson in the account of the Hallam- Tennyson relationship in the memoir he wrote of his father. In this scholarly edition of all known surviving letters and fragments by and to Hallam, we are able to see for the first time, and to see whole and plain, the golden boy who occupied so important a place both in the affection and admiration of his friends and at the center of the famous coterie of "Cam bridge Apostles"—a group that, to be sure, was in part a mutual admiration society, but one that also epitomized the literary, intellectual, and political interests and aspirations of the generation that, about 1830, was beginning to come into its own. Hallam, the son of the eminent historian Henry Hallam, was born in 1811, and was the author of a volume of creditable poetry and of numerous essays and reviews. His letters chronicle his schooling at Eton and Cambridge, a romantic season spent in Italy, a spiritual crisis, the course of his friendship with Tennyson, his engagement to Emily Tenny son, his apprenticeship in a law office, and a burgeoning career as a journalist. They provide, in addition, revealing and important information, otherwise unobtainable, on the early lives and opinions of Hallam's friends, many of whom rose to positions of considerable prominence and influence (Continued on back flap) The Letters of Arthur Henry Hallam 6The LetteiS of Arthur Henry H ai la m EDITED BY JACK KOLB OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS : COLUMBUS Copyright © 1981 by the Ohio State University Press All Rights Reserved. Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Hallam, Arthur Henry, 1811-1833. The letters of Arthur Henry Hallam. Includes index. 1. Hallam, Arthur Henry, 1811-1833 Correspondence. 2. Poets, English—19th century- Correspondence. I. Kolb, Jack, 1946 PR4735.H4Z53 1979 824' .7 [B] 79-13490 ISBN 0-8142-0300-0 Contends Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xvii Editorial Principles xvii Introduction I The Letters 41 Appendix 795 Index 805
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