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The Use of the Female Persona in Lady of Shalott and Mariana.
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Paper I Project Nisha James B.A.Eng(Hons), I B Roll no - 53 II The Use of the Female Persona in Lady of Shalott and Mariana The Lady of Shalott was first published in 1832, when Tennyson was 23 years old, in a volume called Poems. Up to that point, Tennyson had received great critical acclaim, and had won national awards, but the critics savagely attacked the 1832 book, mostly because of poems such as The Lady of Shalott that dealt with fantasy situations instead of realistic ones. The next year, 1833, Tennyson's best friend died, which affected the poet as greatly as would anything in his life. For a long time, during a period that later came to be known as "the ten years' silence," nothing of Tennyson's was published. In 1842, a new volume, also called Poems, was published, to great critical acclaim. The new book had a slightly revised version...
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