The Day-Dream
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The Day-Dream is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson that was published in 1842. It was an expanded version of his 1830 poem The Sleeping Beauty. It was further altered in 1848 for a dramatic performanc
An illustration to the 1830 version of the poem, by W. E. F. Britten (c. 1901)
"The maid-of-honour blooming fair, The page has caught her hand in his" —Illustrated under George T. Andrew (New York, c. 1885)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Julia Margaret Cameron
John Keats
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John Keats was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tu
The Day-Dream
…to other works, it is possible that the story of a sleeping woman is the same used by Richard Wagner in Siegfried. The theme is also similar to John Keats's Endymion. Literary critic Arthur Turnbull claims, "This is one of the most artistically executed of Tennyson's creations; he was always fond of the…
Posthumous portrait by William Hilton, c. 1822
Life mask of Keats by Benjamin Haydon, 1816
Wentworth Place, now the Keats House museum (left), Ten Keats Grove (right), Hampstead Heath, London
An ambrotype of Fanny Brawne taken circa 1850 (photograph on glass)