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‘My Lady of the Lake’, The Bulletin, 15 December 1904

My Lady of the Lake (15 Dec, 1904), p. 39.jpg

This light-hearted poem by Charles Crawford is packed with poetic allusion, and with classical, medieval, and medievalist references. We find mention of several beautiful women from classical antiquity: Queen Semiramis, Eurydice, Judith, Cytheris,…

Tags: Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870), Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), Arthurian myth, Charles Crawford, Ex-Voto, Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400), Joyous Garde, Nixon Waterman (1859-1944), Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), The Girl Who Loved Him So, The Lady of Shallot, The Lady of the Lake, The Parliament of Fowls, Victorian medievalism, Victorian poetry

Sir Galahad and the Pale Nun

This photograph, taken by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1874, is held by the Art Gallery of South Australia. It depicts Sir Galahad, one of the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, and a nun. The illegitimate son of Lancelot and Elaine of…

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