“The Lady of Shalott”
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
John Atkinson Grimshaw
William Holman Hunt
(1889-92)
And the silent isle
imbowers
the
Lady
of
Shalott.
Edward J. Sullivan
Only reapers, reaping early
In among the bearded barley,
Hear a song that echoes
cheerly
Charles
Robinson
(1870-1937)
There
she
weaves
by
night
and
day
And moving thro’ a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear
William
Holman Hunt
But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror’s magic sights
Elizabeth
Siddall
(1853)
“‘I’m half sick of shadows,’
said the Lady of Shalott.”
John William Waterhouse
(1916)
A bow-shot from her bower-eaves,
He rode between the barley-sheaves
William Maw Egley
She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces thro’ the room
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look’d down to Camelot
John William
Waterhouse
(1894)
“The curse is upon me.”
Sidney Harold Meteyard
(1913)
Down she came and found a boat
Beneath a willow left alfloat,
And round about the prow she wrote
The Lady of Shalott
John William
Waterhouse
(1888)
Elaine
v “The Lady of Shalott” was based on
the story of Elaine the Fair of Astolat
in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte
D’arthur (1469-70).
v Elaine dies of grief because she is in
love with Sir Lancelot, but Sir
Lancelot loves Queen Guinevere, the
wife of King Arthur.
v Tennyson developed this story more
in Idylls of the King.
Edward Reginald Frampton
(1872-1923)
Elaine:
Gustave Doré
She loosed the chain, and down she lay
They heard
her singing
her last song
Sophie Anderson’s
Henry Peach Robinson
1830-1901
Singing in her song she died
John
Atkinson
Grimshaw
1836-1893
A gleaming shape
Who is this?
and what is
here?
Edmund Blair Leighton’s Elaine
1853-1922
She has a lovely face
Elaine by Henry Wallis