We've picked some choice examples for you in "Best of the Web," but there's a world of "Lady of Shalott" stuff for you to explore out there. If you don't believe us, take a look at the web. In fact, people are still pretty nuts about this poem it's got a blend of fantasy and tragedy that still fascinates readers, painters, musicians, etc. In the Victorian Era the English were crazy for stories about Arthur, and this poem was embraced not just by readers but also by painters, who used it as inspiration for a bunch of famous paintings (see "Best of the Web" for some examples). It was just the right moment for a work about King Arthur. There have been a lot of books and poems written about Arthur and his knights, but Tennyson based his poem on an Italian book from the thirteenth century called Donna di Scalotta. It's one of a few poems that he wrote about the legends of King Arthur. The version we use here is from 1842, and it's pretty different from the earlier one (you can check both of them out in our "Best of the Web" section). He first published this poem in an 1833 book, and then again in a much more successful 1842 version. "The Lady of Shalott" was an early work, written before Tennyson hit it big. So yeah, Tennyson was a big deal at a time when England itself was a pretty big deal. That means that, for most of the Victorian era, he was the most important and famous poet in England.
He was the Poet Laureate of England for more than 40 years, from 1850 until he died in 1892. Lord Tennyson became a very famous and popular poet over the course of his long career.
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