Elegies

Part two of two. Michael Symmons Roberts' adaptation of Tennyson's In Memoriam. Both Milton's Lycidas and In Memoriam were written in response to the sudden unexpected death of a young male friend, striking the poets in their mid-twenties. when they were students at Cambridge. The line from Lycidas to In Memoriam is clear - Tennyson idolised Milton and wanted his elegy to emulate Milton's expansiveness and profundity. With Holliday Grainger and James Cooney.