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The Lady of Shalott

poem by Tennyson
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The Lady of Shalott, narrative poem in four sections by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in 1832 and revised for his 1842 collection Poems.

Typically Victorian in its exaltation of an imprisoned maiden who dies for a chaste love, the poem tells of Elaine of Arthurian legend, shut in her father’s coldly beautiful castle on the island of Shalott. Tennyson evokes his heroine’s dreamlike, monotonous life through incantatory rhyme and metre.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.