was In Memoriam, a powerful elegy published in 1850 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, that took 17 years to write after his close Oxford friend Arthur Henry Hallam’s young death. Made up of 133 shorter elegies, this amazing classic is easily the longest and most dedicated poem on the immortality of friendship and the presence of a dead individual’s spirit in a living survivor’s life. I own the 1897 version with beautiful, reflective illustrations by Henry Fenn which are pretty much on each page–a fantastic and successful effort to visualize a literary work.