In 1850, Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate and married his childhood friend, Emily Sellwood. At the age of 18, he published his first book, 'Poems by Two Brothers' with his brother, later followed by 'Poems Chiefly Lyrical' (1830).
It is one of Tennyson's most famous and memorable works, with its lucid medieval romanticism, as well as enigmatic symbolism.Īlfred Tennyson (1809–1892), invariably known as Alfred Lord Tennyson, was born in Somersby, UK. Inspired by the short prose text 'La Damigella di Scalot' from the 13th-century, it tells the tragic story of Elaine of Astolat, a young noblewoman stranded in a tower up the river from Camelot.
'The Lady of Shalott' is a lyrical ballad by the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson.
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