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Tirra-Lirrical Ballads: Source Hunting with the Lady of Shalott

Tirra-Lirrical Ballads: Source Hunting with the Lady of Shalott Tirra- Lirrical Ballads: Source Hunting with the Lady of Shalott NAOMI LEVINE arly in 1868, two critics were speculating about the origin of Alfred Tenny- E son’s already classic “The Lady of Shalott.” Here is Frederick James Furnivall writing to William Michael Rossetti with an answer from the horse’s mouth: “As you kindly took trou ble about The Lady of Shalott for me, you are entitled to a copy of Tennyson’s own account:— ‘I met the story first in some Italian novelle : but the web, mirror, island, etc., were my own.’ ” A notebook from Tennyson’s days at Trinity College rec ords, “Legends. / The Lady of Scalot. Novelle Antiche,” apparently conr fi ming that he had found inspiration in a thirteenth- century col- lection of tales called Cento novelle antiche (One hundred ancient tales). The collection was known in the nineteenth century for having inspired many of the stories in Boccaccio’s 1353 Decameron. Among the hundred ancient tales is, in- deed, a brief novella about a “damigella di Scalot” who died for love of Lancelot. But no amount of explanation or evidence has satise fi d scholars, who have doggedly sought additional sources for Tennyson’s 1832 ballad. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Victorian Poetry West Virginia University Press

Tirra-Lirrical Ballads: Source Hunting with the Lady of Shalott

Levine, Naomi
Victorian Poetry , Volume 54 (4) – Mar 30, 2017
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Tirra- Lirrical Ballads: Source Hunting with the Lady of Shalott NAOMI LEVINE arly in 1868, two critics were speculating about the origin of Alfred Tenny- E son’s already classic “The Lady of Shalott.” Here is Frederick James Furnivall writing to William Michael Rossetti with an answer from the horse’s mouth: “As you kindly took trou ble about The Lady of Shalott for me, you are entitled to a copy of Tennyson’s own account:— ‘I met the story first in some Italian novelle : but the web, mirror, island, etc., were my own.’ ” A notebook from Tennyson’s days at Trinity College rec ords, “Legends. / The Lady of Scalot. Novelle Antiche,” apparently conr fi ming that he had found inspiration in a thirteenth- century col- lection of tales called Cento novelle antiche (One hundred ancient tales). The collection was known in the nineteenth century for having inspired many of the stories in Boccaccio’s 1353 Decameron. Among the hundred ancient tales is, in- deed, a brief novella about a “damigella di Scalot” who died for love of Lancelot. But no amount of explanation or evidence has satise fi d scholars, who have doggedly sought additional sources for Tennyson’s 1832 ballad.

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Published: Mar 30, 2017

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