Alfred Tennyson

The Lady of ShalottAlfred TennysonA Victorian BalladThe poem is loosely based on the Arthurian legend of Elaine of Astolat, as recounted in a thirteenth-century Italian novella titled Donna di Scalotta (No. LXXXII in the collection Cento Novelle Antiche); the earlier version is closer to the source material than the latter. Tennyson focused on the Lady's "isolation in the tower and her decision to participate in the living world, two subjects not even mentioned in Donna di Scalotta.""The Lady of Shalott" is a Victorian ballad by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892). Like his other early poems - "Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere," and "Galahad" - the poem recasts Arthurian subject matter loosely based on medieval sources. Tennyson wrote two versions of the poem, one published in 1833, of 20 stanzas, the other in 1842, of 19 stanzas.

Ett urval av Alfred Tennysons dikter i Hjalmar Edgrens klassiska översättning. I boken ingår: Majdrottningen, Jungfrun av Shallot, Locksley Hall, Trädgårdsmästarens dotter, Dora, S:t Agnes afton, Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Lady Clare, Ulysses, Den lätta brigadens attack, Blomman, Dit ut, ett urval från In memoriam (bland annat Nyårsklockan), Enoch Arden och två av de så kallade Kungsidyllerna: Elaine och Guinevere.