Who wrote the famous poem 'The Lady of Shalott'?

• The Lady of Shalott: 
- 'The Lady of Shalott' is a lyrical ballad by the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson and one of his best-known works.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson এর narrative poem. 
- ১৮৩২ সালে প্রকাশিত হওয়া এই কবিতাটি চার খন্ডে বিভক্ত।
- Typically Victorian in its exaltation of an imprisoned maiden who dies for a chaste love, the poem tells of Elaine of Arthurian legend, shut in her father’s coldly beautiful castle on the island of Shalott.
- Tennyson evokes his heroine’s dreamlike, monotonous life through incantatory rhyme and meter.

• এই কবিতার একটি বিখ্যাত উক্তি -
- "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever."

• Alfred Tennyson:
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson একজন English poet. 
- তিনি ১৮৫০ সালে ইংল্যান্ডের Poet Laureate নিযুক্ত হোন। 
- বন্ধু Arthur Hallam এর মৃত্যুশোকে তিনি রচনা করেন বিখ্যাত elegy (শোকগাথা) 'In Memoriam'. 
- He is often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. 

• তার বিখ্যাত কবিতাসমূহ:
- Oenone,
- Ulysses,
- The Lotos-Eaters,
- Locksley Hall,
- Morte D'Arthur,  
- The Lady of the Shalott, etc.

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica.