Abstract
"In Memoriam" is central to a biographer's enquiry because it is at once a public monument and a passionate record of private bereavement. The poet's love for his dead friend Arthur Hallam has prompted responsible and continuing debate over Tennyson's sexuality. Michelangelo's and Shakespeare's sonnets, as well as Hallam's and Tennyson's engagement with Neoplatonism, can be usefully recruited to contribute to that debate. Further, "In Memoriam's" tensions between religion and science (or faith and doubt) and human and divine love are linked, the two antithetical systems illuminating each other. The poem demands to be read inclusively and in the entirety of its contexts.
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