![]() ![]() Thus she watches the world through a mirror, and weaves what she sees in a magic web. She is under a curse: if she looks directly at Camelot, some unknown doom will befall her. The Lady of Tennyson's poem lives in a tower on the island of Shalott, in a river near Camelot. However the original story of Elaine is quite different from that of the Lady, whose name is never mentioned and who is, it seems, not quite human. Tennyson returned to the story in 'Lancelot and Elaine' (in his 1859 Idylls of the King). ![]() 'The Lady of Shalott' (of which Tennyson wrote two versions: one in 1833, of twenty verses, the other in 1842 of nineteen verses) is loosely based upon a story from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur concerning Elaine of Astolat, a maiden who falls in love with Lancelot, but dies of grief when he cannot return her love. 'The Lady of Shalott', a romantic poem by the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809–1892). ![]()
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