Lady of Shalott - Lord Tennyson

The Lady of Shalott is one of the greatest works by Lord Tennyson. Here are a few questions for study and discussion.

The Lady of Shalott is a poem by Lord Tennyson. Tennyson retells the story of the fair maiden who dies for love in "The Lady of Shalott" (with two versions: 1833 and 1842). Here's a study guide for The Lady of Shalott.

Illustrated by Geneviève Côté, this edition of Lord Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott" dramatically depicts the journey of the Lady of Shallot and her unrequited love. Discover this famous classic.

Here's the complete text of "The Lady of Shalott," by Lord Tennyson.

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Alfred Lord Tennyson is one of the greatest poets of the Victorian period. He was Poet Laureate in 1850, and he wrote works about King Arthur, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," and "Ulysses."

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"The best-known retelling is Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott,' in two versions (1833 and 1842), which inspired dozens of images of the maiden weaving in her bower, or setting out heart-broken on the barge that will bear her dead body to Camelot, by such artists as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John William Waterhouse, Howard Pyle, Elizabeth Siddal, and H.J. Ford."

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