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The Lady of Shalott

The Lady of Shalott

Gedicht van Alfred Tennyson
"The Lady of Shalott" is een in 1833 gepubliceerd gedicht van Alfred Tennyson. Net als "Sir Lancelot en Queen Guinevere" en "Galahad" is ook dit gedicht losjes op de Arthurlegende gebaseerd. Shalott is de verengelste naam van het Italiaanse Donna... Wikipedia
Oorspronkelijk gepubliceerd: 1833
No time hath she to sport and play: A charmed web she weaves alway. A curse is on her, if she stay Her weaving, either night or day, To look down to Camelot.
"The Lady of Shalott" (/ʃəˈlɒt/) is a lyrical ballad by the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson and one of his best-known works.
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There she weaves by night and day A magic web with colours gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay To look down to Camelot.
Tennyson's famous "The Lady of Shalott" (1842) is a haunting tale of magic and art. In this poem, a mysterious woman lives alone on the island of Shalott.
There she weaves by night and day A magic web with colours gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay To look down to Camelot.
That said, most scholars understand “The Lady of Shalott” to be about the conflict between art and life. The Lady, who weaves her magic web and sings her song ...
The Lady of Shalott is a painting of 1888 by the English painter John William Waterhouse. It is a representation of the ending of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1832 ...
This poem is Tennyson's earliest published use of the Arthurian theory and legend. In 1859 his Lancelot and Elaine retells the story.
Heard a carol, mournful, holy 145 Chanted loudly, chanted lowly, Till her blood was frozen slowly, And her eyes were darkened wholly, Turned to tower'd Camelot.