ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -His original version of ‘The Lady of Shalott’ had twenty stanzas, and was written when he was just 22. It was included in Poems: a volume published towards the end of 1832, although its title page bore the date 1833.

Detailed explanation-2: -"The Lady of Shalott” is a lyrical ballad by the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson and one of his best-known works. Inspired by the 13th-century Italian short prose text Donna di Scalotta, the poem tells the tragic story of Elaine of Astolat, a young noblewoman stranded in a tower up the river from Camelot.

Detailed explanation-3: -Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in full Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth and Freshwater, (born August 6, 1809, Somersby, Lincolnshire, England-died October 6, 1892, Aldworth, Surrey), English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. He was raised to the peerage in 1884.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tennyson wrote many of his most famous poems, such as ‘Morte d’Arthur’, ‘Ulysses’ and ‘St Simeon Stylites’ in the period between Hallam’s death and the publication of In Memoriam. In 1847 he published The Princess, a long narrative poem on the subject of women’s education.