Arthur Henry Hallam was an English poet, best known as the subject of a major work, In Memoriam, by his close friend and fellow poet Alfred Tennyson. Hallam has been described as the jeune homme fatal
"Break, Break, Break" is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson written during early 1835 and published in 1842. The poem is an elegy that describes Tennyson's feelings of loss after Arthur Henry Hallam died
Arthur Hallam
…a true national Anthology of three centuries to Henry Hallam". It can be argued that some of Tennyson's other works are linked to Hallam, for example, Break, Break, Break, Mariana, and The Lady of Shalott. Thomas Chatterton…
c. 1901 illustration to the poem by W. E. F. Britten
Break, Break, Break, On The Cold Grey Stones O Sea…, watercolour by Alfred Downing Fripp