WorkAlfred Tennyson

“The Lady of Shalott," in Poems”

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Documented 1840

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“I have just been reading the new poems of Tennyson.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · August 1842
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re19 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-07b, line 17957, letter Aug 1842; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit 'I have just been reading the new poems of Tennyson'.

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Letter to William H. Channing

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“There was a young man with us with a most poetic face. I met him again next day at dinner, his name is Heath. He talked of the Lady of Shalot and looked as if he might have lived as she did.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Fuller mentions John Francis Heath talking of 'the Lady of Shalot' — Hudspeth identified this as Tennyson's poem, first published in Poems (London, 1833, though dated 1832).