Victorians! discussion

June 1-6	Prologue through XXVII (27) - to the first Christmas
June 7-12	XXVIII-LXXVII (28-77) - to the second Christmas
June 13-18	LXXVIII-CIII (78-103) - to the third Christmas
June 19-24	CIV-end* (104-end) - from the third Christmas
June 25-30	The poem as a whole

* The last section Tennyson left untitled, but should be read as a separate section from CXXXI (131). Some editions have given this last section the title Epilogue. Others separate it with an asterisk or other inconspicuous division. This last section begins with the lines “O true and tried, so well and long.”

Notes on reading schedule:

I will open topics for discussion the evening before the starting date, to give people on the East Coast a chance to start posting before I get to my computer after breakfast.

I’ve translated the Roman numeral numbering which Tennyson used in case you have forgotten what your sixth grade teacher taught you about Roman numerals. :)

While spoilers aren’t a major issue in this work, please keep the discussion limited to the sections for that period so every can participate as fully as possible.

Because I wanted to include a thread for discussion of the whole poem while still fitting the poem into the June allocation, each thread will go for six days instead of the usual full week. So be prepared for new sections to open on different days of the week!

I have used the division of the poem proposed by A.C. Bradley in his book A Commentary on Tennyson's In Memoriam. That excellent book is available on line here
http://archive.org/details/commentary...
select on the left side the format that you prefer.

Enjoy the discussion!

Thanks for all the prep work, and for your willingness to guide us through this poem. I am looking forward to discussing this.