A review by fauxpunk
In Memoriam: Authoritative Text Criticism by Alfred Tennyson

5.0

This poem was absolutely gorgeous: the kind where you have to stop every few pages to underline and re-read a stanza or two. After they death of a close friend, Tennyson struggled to make sense of things in a time where new scientific findings were creeping up on faith and religion. He wrestles with grief and confusion and struggles to find faith in God in the midst of this unrest and tragedy, and the resulting poem is hauntingly beautiful and at times, quite devastating. Yet, it is undoubtedly a masterpiece, and certainly a work I will revisit.