Alfred Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism…

Alfred Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, Is a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

In 1848, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt HAD made a list of "Immortals", artistic heroes whom they admired, especially from literature, notably including Keats and Tennyson, whose work WILL form subjects for Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood paintings.

The Lady of Shalott alone Is a subject for Rossetti, Hunt, John William Waterhouse (three versions), and Elizabeth Siddall.

ON September 27, 1855, Tennyson reads from his new book Maud and other poems, at a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth Browning in London; Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a sketch of him doing so.