I’ve had Tennyson on the mind for several years now, and this interest (attachment?) has intensified since my dad died this past summer (the morning of 19 June 2021). As I am trying to make progress on my next book (on love), Dad’s death and Tennyson’s long elegy keep coming ’round.
Here’s a link to the full text of In Memoriam – prologue, epilogue, and all 131 sections.
How did I not know of this? What a marvelous discovery! “Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown’d”