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

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