TITLE

REALITY AND REFLECTION IN "THE LADY OF SHALOTT"

AUTHOR(S)

Hagen, June Steffenson

PUB. DATE

September 1975

SOURCE

American Notes & Queries;Sep75, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p7

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Literary Criticism

ABSTRACT

Explores the implications of the Lady's curse for the artist-in-isolation theme in the poem 'The Lady of Shallot,' by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Suggestion of a necessary connection between art and death; Discrepancy in the interpretation of the character; Emphasis on the Lady as an artist which is suggestive of the Tennyson's symbolic view and preclusion of the psychological of the Lady's curse.

ACCESSION #

7213889

Tags: LADY of Shalott, The (Poem : Tennyson);  TENNYSON, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892;  CRITICISM;  SYMBOLISM in literature

 

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