This document summarizes the story of Lady Shalott told in Alfred Tennyson's 1832 poem. It describes how Lady Shalott was cursed to only see the outside world through her mirror in her tower. She falls in love with Sir Lancelot after seeing him directly in her mirror. She leaves the tower on a boat to follow him but dies before reaching Camelot. The document also references paintings inspired by the poem and its themes of confinement and lost love.

1. First created 6 Jun 2020. Version 1.0 - 10 April 2019. Daperro. London.
Lady Shalott
Tragic story of lost love
Inspired by the singing of Loreena Mckennitt and
the poem by Alfred Tennyson (1832)

2. Long field of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky

3. And thro’ the field the road runs by
To many-tower’d Camelot

4. Knights of the Round Table

5. The sunbeam showers break and quiver
In the stream that runneth ever
By the island in the river
Flowing down to Camelot

6. William Holman Hunt
No time hath she to sport and play:
A charmed web she weaves always

7. Hears her ever chanting cheerly,Like
an angel, singing clearly,
O’er the stream of Camelor
William Holman Hunt

8. There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay
John Waterhouse

9. John Waterhouse

10. On burnish’d hooves his war-horse trode;
From underneath his helmet flow’d
His coal bcurls as on he rode,
As he rode down from Camelot.

12. Curse is on her if she stay
…..
She Knows not what the curse may be

13. She saw the water-lily bloom
She saw the helmet and the plume
……..
The mirror crack’d from side to side
“The curse is come upon me” cried
The Lady of Shalott.
John Waterhouse

14. Outside the isle a shallow boat
Beneath a willow lay afloat
Below the carven stern she wrote
The Lady of Shalott
John Waterhouse

15. Lying, robed in snowy white
That loosely [chain] flew to left and right --
The leaves upon her falling light
Walter Crane

16. Thro’ the noises of the night,
She floated down to Camelot….
George Edward Robertson

17. ‘The Lady of Shalott’ is a ballad by the
poet Lord Tennyson (English 1809-1892).
Lady Shalott was condemned by a curse
to see the outside through her mirror, in
the tower.
She was weaving a tapestry, when she
saw Sir Lancelot directly and fell in love
with him.
She left the tower upon a boat. She dies
before reaching Camelot.
It is also about the Lady of England, with
confined in their own home after
marriage.
Lady Shalott

18. All rights reserved. Rights belong to their respective owners.
Available free for non-commercial and personal use.
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Music – The Lady of Shalott by Loreena Mchennitt

20. English Painters