This poet was famous for an elegy written for his best friend, Arthur Hallam. What was the poem called and who was the poet? "In Memoriam" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson &qu…

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This poet was famous for an elegy written for his best friend, Arthur Hallam. What was the poem called and who was the poet? "In Memoriam" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ode to a Grecian Urn" by John Keats "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" by John Milton "London, 1802" by William Wordsworth

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The answer is "In Memoriam" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Arthur and Alfred met at Cambridge, where they were both members of a society of intellectuals known as the Apostles. They became very close friends, and in fact, Arthur fell in love with Alfred's sister, Emily. After Arthur's death, Alfred wrote an Elegy in his honor titled, "In Memoriam"