B4: Arthurian Legend

In Sir Thomas Mallory’s The Fair Maid of Astolat the maid is given very little agency as compared to Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem, The Lady of Shallot, which features the lady as having great, almost magical, skills. Tennyson’s poem gives a very different view of […]

Reading Malory’s “The Fair Maid of Astolat” influenced how I read Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shallot“. The victorian poem focuses primarily on the Lady of Shalott herself with a delayed introduction of Lancelot. Malory’s poem is filled with many characters. The overlapping names, places and […]

After Reading Malory’s “The Fair Maid of Astolat” so many things have changed in how I interpret and feel about Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shallot”. Since I clearly read the Lady of Shallot first, I originally felt that Lancelot was shallow in seeing only this […]

As we briefly discussed in our library session in Winchester, both Thomas Malory’s “Fair Maid of Astolat” and Lord Alfred Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott” are at least partly based on the figure of Elaine from Arthurian legend. Both stories depict the tragedy of Elaine’s life: […]

Blog Post 4: Tennyson vs. Malroy The two poems “The Lady of Shallot” by Tennyson and “Fair Maid of Astolat” by Malroy are two poem of women who die presumably from a lack, or denial of love. “The Lady of Shallot” focuses around a mysterious […]