Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambrid
Tennyson in the late 1860s
An illustration by William Edward Frank Britten showing Somersby Rectory, where Tennyson was raised and began writing
Statue of Lord Tennyson in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge
John William Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott, 1888 (Tate Britain, London)
The Lady of Shalott
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"The Lady of Shalott" is a lyrical ballad by the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson and one of his best-known works. Inspired by the 13th-century Italian short prose text La Damigella di Scalot
An 1853 illustration by Elizabeth Siddal
William Maw Egley, The Lady of Shalott, 1858
The Lady of Shalott by Walter Crane, 1862
The Lady of Shalott by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1875)