This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• The Eversley Edition text of the poem, accompanied by Erik Gray's preface, full introduction, and detailed explanatory footnotes.

• One illustration.

• A generous selection (new to the Third Edition) of background materials on In Memoriam's subject, Arthur Henry Hallam, as well as its literary and scientific contexts.

• Twelve contemporary reviews spanning 1850-55 (also new to this Third Edition) that suggest In Memoriam's initial reception.

• Eleven critical essays, five of them new to the Third Edition.

• A chronology, a selected bibliography, and an index of first lines.

About the Series

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