Page from Paul Monette's English senior thesis at Yale, on Alfred, Lord Tennyson's sonnet sequence In Memoriam, written to memorialize his friend Arthur Henry Hallam. The paper was under the direction of Harold Bloom. This page analyzes Tennyson's working out of his grief over Hallam's death, which is what Monette would do in poetry some years later after the death of Roger Horwitz from AIDS in 1986. 1967