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Lady of ShalottAlfred, Lord Tennyson
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John William Waterhouse,
'I am Half Sick of Shadows' said the Lady
of Shalott
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• 1894 John William Waterhouse
• “The Lady of Shalott” Looking at Lancelot
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William Maw
Egley,
The Lady of
Shalott
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William Holman Hunt, The Lady of
Shalott
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The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse
1888, Tate Gallery at London.
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Arthur Hughes, The Lady of Shalott (1872-73)
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John Atkinson Grimshaw,
The Lady of Shalott
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The Lady of Shalott
byDante
Gabriel Rossetti
1857
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HW: Due 2/8/12
• Check out other illustrations of the poem at http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/loslist.html
• Then read the poem at
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/los1.html
Questions:
What thoughts do you have about the visual depictions of the poem? Which ones seem to best capture what you perceive to be the ideas that Tennyson was hoping to portray in the poem? How so? Which ones seem most removed from the poem? Why?