BIOGRAPHIES

Kolb, Jack. “Arthur Hallam and Emily Tennyson.” The Review of English Studies 28, no. 109 (February 1977): 2-48.

Reconsiders the chronology of Hallam's romantic relationship with Emily Tennyson by examining letters and other writings.

Kolb, Jack. “Christ Church or Trinity: Arthur Henry Hallam's Matriculation.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 12, no. 3 (summer 1999): 38-41.

Refutes the long-standing idea that Hallam's matriculation at Trinity College, Cambridge, reflected his father's first choice of schools.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Griffiths, Eric. “The Worth of Change: The Arthur Hallam Letters.” The Tennyson Research Bulletin 4, no. 2 (November 1983): 72-80.

Review of Jack Kolb's edited collection of The Letters of Arthur Henry Hallam.

CRITICISM

Antippas, Andy P. “Tennyson, Hallam, and The Palace of art. Victorian Poetry 5, no. 4 (winter 1967): 294-96.

Compares Hallam's “Long Hast Thou Wandered on the Happy Mountain” and Alfred Tennyson's The Palace of Art and their treatment of the poet's role in society.

Chandler, James. “Hallam, Tennyson, and the Poetry of Sensation: Aestheticist Allegories of a Counter-Public Sphere.” Studies in Romanticism 33, no. 4 (winter 1994): 527-37.

Claims Hallam's essay on modern poetry suggests possibilities for art as part of the public sphere.

Johnston, Eileen Tess. “Hallam's Review of Tennyson: Its Contexts and Significance.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 23, no. 1 (spring 1981): 1-26.

Examines “On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry, and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson” in the broader context of the cultural setting of the nineteenth century, especially in terms of religion and morality.

Kolb, Jack. “‘They Were No Kings’: An Unrecorded Sonnet by Hallam.” Victorian Poetry 15, no. 4 (winter 1977): 373-76.

Claims an anonymous sonnet published in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country was written by Hallam.

Kolb, Jack. “‘On First Looking into Pope's Iliad’: Hallam's Keatsian Sonnet.” Victorian Poetry 29, no. 1 (spring 1991): 89-92.

Speculates on the similarities between an early sonnet by Hallam and “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer” by John Keats.

Mansell, Darrel. “Displacing Hallam's Tomb in Tennyson's In Memoriam. Victorian Poetry 36, no. 1 (spring 1998): 97-111.

Argues Alfred Tennyson deliberately erases the real figure of Hallam in the construction In Memoriam in order to demonstrate his own powers as a elegist.

Rosenberg, John D. “Tennyson and the Passing of Arthur.” Victorian Poetry 25, no. 3-4 (autumn-winter 1987): 141-50.

Explores the dual influences of Hallam and Arthurian legend on Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam.

Additional coverage of Arthur Henry Hallam's life and career is contained in the following source published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 32.