Tennyson Gallery

I am half sick of shadows, c1911. Artist: John William Waterhouse

I am half sick of shadows, c1911. Illustration of Tennyson's poem of the Arthurian legend, showing the Lady of Shalott bored with her weaving. Beside her is the window she will look through and fall in love with Sir Lancelot. She will die of a broken heart because her love is not returned

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Caricature of Tennyson and the Marquess of Queensberry

Caricature of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), Poet Laureate, and John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (1844-1900). The Marquess had ejected from the Globe Theatre, London, for loudly interrupted the performance of a play by Tennyson, The Promise of May, on secularist grounds, disliking the fact that the villain of the play was an atheist.
1882

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Tennyson Sambourne

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) the Poet Laureate as Alfred the Great: " What we call our Bard's our Best, and may his Poetry never be Werse!" Date: 1882

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