We've picked some choice examples for you in 'Best of the Web,' but there's a world of 'Lady of Shalott' stuff for you to explore out there. If you don't believe us, take a look at the web. In fact, people are still pretty nuts about this poem it's got a blend of fantasy and tragedy that still fascinates readers, painters, musicians, etc. In the Victorian Era the English were crazy for stories about Arthur, and this poem was embraced not just by readers but also by painters, who used it as inspiration for a bunch of famous paintings (see 'Best of the Web' for some examples). It was just the right moment for a work about King Arthur. There have been a lot of books and poems written about Arthur and his knights, but Tennyson based his poem on an Italian book from the thirteenth century called Donna di Scalotta. It's one of a few poems that he wrote about the legends of King Arthur. The version we use here is from 1842, and it's pretty different from the earlier one (you can check both of them out in our 'Best of the Web' section). He first published this poem in an 1833 book, and then again in a much more successful 1842 version. 'The Lady of Shalott' was an early work, written before Tennyson hit it big. So yeah, Tennyson was a big deal at a time when England itself was a pretty big deal. That means that, for most of the Victorian era, he was the most important and famous poet in England.

He was the Poet Laureate of England for more than 40 years, from 1850 until he died in 1892. In the end, this destruction places the reader closer to Tennyson's dilemma, and together poet and reader stare at the name more aware than ever of their inability to reach the non-representational and of their bondage to mortal limits.Lord Tennyson became a very famous and popular poet over the course of his long career. But the reader cannot remain here, for this metaphoric vision destroys itself and dies with the Lady. The reader is motivated by a desire to move from a synecdochic and metonymic space to a metaphoric landscape. These impulses reflect the movement from the doubly enclosed, piecemeal images visible from the tower to the more definite vision in the last section of the poem. In this attempt, he moves to a reading, the impulses of which are similar to those that press the Lady through the poem. The possibility of being identified among the dull, limited citizens tempts the reader to separate himself from them and prompts him to attempt to step into the Lady's boat. 163) place the unsuspecting reader among the citizens of Camelot, looking uneasily at the Lady's inscribed name.

At the end of 'The Lady of Shalott,' the questions 'Who is this? and what is here?' (1.

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