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poem</a>, written by <a href="/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson" title="Alfred, Lord Tennyson">Alfred Tennyson</a>, published in 1847. Tennyson was <a href="/wiki/Poet_Laureate" class="mw-redirect" title="Poet Laureate">Poet Laureate</a> of the United Kingdom from 1850 to 1892 and remains one of the most popular <a href="/wiki/English_poets" class="mw-redirect" title="English poets">English poets</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The poem tells the story of a heroic princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women's university where men are forbidden to enter. The prince to whom she was betrothed in infancy enters the university with two friends, disguised as women students. They are discovered and flee, but eventually they fight a battle for the princess's hand. They lose and are wounded, but the women nurse the men back to health. Eventually the princess returns the prince's love. </p><p>Several later works have been based upon the poem, including <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan" title="Gilbert and Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a>'s 1884 <a href="/wiki/Comic_opera" title="Comic opera">comic opera</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Princess_Ida" title="Princess Ida">Princess Ida</a></i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tennyson planned the poem in the late 1830s after discussing the idea with <a href="/wiki/Emily_Tennyson,_Baroness_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Emily Tennyson, Baroness Tennyson">Emily Sellwood</a>, whom he later married in 1850. It seems to have been a response to criticism that he was not writing about serious issues. It was also a response, in part, to the founding of <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_College,_London" title="Queen's College, London">Queen's College, London</a>, Britain's first college for women, in 1847.<sup id="cite_ref-Scott_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scott-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two of Tennyson's friends were part-time professors there.<sup id="cite_ref-Scott_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scott-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other critics speculate that the poem was partly inspired by the opening of <i><a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost" title="Love's Labour's Lost">Love's Labour's Lost</a></i> and other literary works.<sup id="cite_ref-Lang_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lang-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Janet_Ross" title="Janet Ross">Janet Ross</a>, the daughter of <a href="/wiki/Lucie,_Lady_Duff-Gordon" title="Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon">Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon</a> recalled that "[Tennyson] told my mother that he had her in mind when he wrote <i>The Princess</i>. I don't think she was as much flattered as many of his admirers would have been".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tennyson is reported as saying, in the 1840s, that "the two great social questions impending in England were 'the education of the poor man before making him our master, and the higher education of women'."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The women's rights movement, including the right to higher education, was still at an early stage in 1847.<sup id="cite_ref-Shaw_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shaw-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Britain, the first university-level women's school, <a href="/wiki/Girton_College,_Cambridge" title="Girton College, Cambridge">Girton College, Cambridge</a>, was not opened until 1869,<sup id="cite_ref-oxford_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oxford-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> more than two decades after Tennyson wrote <i>The Princess</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Woman" title="A Vindication of the Rights of Woman">A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</a></i> (1792), however, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft" title="Mary Wollstonecraft">Mary Wollstonecraft</a> had been an early advocate of the equality of men and women,<sup id="cite_ref-Shaw_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shaw-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and writers such as <a href="/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill" title="John Stuart Mill">John Stuart Mill</a> had argued for female emancipation.<sup id="cite_ref-oxford_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oxford-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, "Tennyson was in the vanguard in writing of the subject<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and although critics have rightly complained about the conservative ending of his poem, he must be credited with broaching the topic and voicing some of the injustices women suffered."<sup id="cite_ref-Lang_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lang-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Shaw_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shaw-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>The Princess</i>, "Tennyson describes with such clarity the principal problems of feminism".<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As in the case of many other Tennyson poems, <i>The Princess</i> is framed by a prologue and a conclusion outside of the main narrative.<sup id="cite_ref-Shaw_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shaw-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The description of a <a href="/wiki/F%C3%AAte" title="Fête">summer fête</a> that opens the poem is based on a feast of the Mechanics' Institute at a country house, Park House, near <a href="/wiki/Maidstone" title="Maidstone">Maidstone</a>, in 1842. The narrative device is a tale of fancy composed in turn by some university undergraduates, based on an old chronicle.<sup id="cite_ref-drabble_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-drabble-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though the poem was moderately successful, Tennyson wrote to a friend, saying "I hate it and so will you". He revised the work after its first publication. Some of the best-known lyrics, including "The splendour falls on castle walls" were added for the third edition (1850).<sup id="cite_ref-drabble_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-drabble-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Synopsis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As with many of Tennyson's works, <i>The Princess</i> has an outer setting to the main narrative, consisting of a Prologue and a Conclusion that take place at a <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian-era</a> summer <i><a href="/wiki/F%C3%AAte" title="Fête">fête</a></i>. The characters in the Prologue agree to participate in a storytelling game about a heroic princess in days of old, based on an ancient family <a href="/wiki/Chronicle" title="Chronicle">chronicle</a>. The main narrative follows, given in seven lengthy "<a href="/wiki/Canto" title="Canto">Cantos</a>", with the prince as narrator. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_prince_seeks_Princess_Ida">The prince seeks Princess Ida</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The prince seeks Princess Ida"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Princess-4.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Princess-4.JPG/220px-Princess-4.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Princess-4.JPG/330px-Princess-4.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Princess-4.JPG 2x" data-file-width="368" data-file-height="502" /></a><figcaption>"O marvellously modest maiden, you" – 1890 illustration</figcaption></figure> <p>In the main narrative, a prince has been betrothed since infancy to a princess, Ida, from a neighbouring land. The princess has grown to become beautiful and accomplished and has founded a university of maidens in a remote retreat. Her father, King Gama, explains that she refuses to have anything to do with the world of men and is influenced by other women, Lady Blanche and Lady Psyche, who have all resolved never to wed a man. The prince and two friends, Cyril and Florian, decide to infiltrate the university to try to win the princess's return. They disguise themselves as women and ride into the university asking to enroll as students. Florian is Lady Psyche's brother and hopes to influence her. </p><p>The "new students" are taken to see the princess, who tells them that they must "cast and fling the tricks, which make us toys of men", so that they may become equal with men. The men are impressed by the princess and debate the merits of women's equality. They move around the university, listening and learning. Their tutors, Lady Psyche and Lady Blanche, discover the men's subterfuge, but hide their knowledge for reasons of their own. Blanche and Psyche are intellectual and political rivals at the university, and Blanche vows to force Psyche out. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_prince_is_discovered">The prince is discovered</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The prince is discovered"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ida and the prince walk together, and, still posing as a woman student, he tells her news of the prince and his court, and they discuss the marriage contract between Ida and the prince. He tells her how the prince loves her from afar. She speaks of her ideals of equality. The prince touches hands with Ida on the path. At a picnic, Ida invites the prince to sing a song from her [his] homeland. He sings of love, but Ida mocks it and talks of the inequality of love between men and women. She invites another song about the women of her [his] land. Cyril sings a drunken tavern song, and chaos breaks out as the men's identities become obvious to all. In the confusion, Ida falls into the river, and the prince saves her from drowning. </p><p>The men flee (and Psyche flees with Cyril, leaving her child behind in the castle), but the prince and Florian are recaptured. Letters arrives from the prince's father (the king) and Ida's father (Gama). Gama tells how he started to come to Ida to plead for the prince but was taken hostage by the king. The king tells Ida not to harm the prince and to free him, or the king's army will storm the castle. The prince declares his love for Ida, saying, "except you slay me here according to your bitter statute-book, I cannot cease to follow you... but half without you; with you, whole; and of those halves you worthiest". Word comes that the king has arrived to storm the castle. Ida gives a stirring speech, saying that she will lead the maidens into battle. Though Ida appears to be forming an interest in the prince, she renounces her marriage contract. The prince and Florian are freed and pushed out of the castle. Psyche is distraught at having betrayed Ida and her cause, and having lost her child. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Battle_and_aftermath">Battle and aftermath</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Battle and aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The king wants to make war, but the prince wants to win Ida's love. He says, "wild natures need wise curbs... not war: lest I lose all". Gama and the prince have developed a warm relationship, and Gama supports the prince's cause, but Ida's brothers support their sister at all costs. The prince and his friends offer to fight Ida's brothers and to let the battle decide whether Ida must keep her contract. Ida's brother Arac sends word of this proposal to Ida, who rants against the harm done to women, but confident of her brothers' victory, she agrees to abide by the contest. Meanwhile, Ida has been growing to love Psyche's child. </p><p>In the battle, Ida's brothers defeat and wound the prince and his friends. The prince acknowledges defeat and pleads with Ida to let Psyche reclaim her child, but he falls into a coma. Ida rants against Psyche's betrayal. The king says that he cannot let such a hard woman tend his son. Ida relents and asks the king to let her tend the prince's injuries, and to let the ladies tend to Cyril and Florian. This shows her willingness to bend her own laws. By ministering to the men, the ladies of the university become more fair, and Ida finds peace. Love blossoms between the nurses and the nursed. </p><p>Ida eventually comes to love the prince. As he regains consciousness at times, they discuss their ideas of love, and she discovers that they agree on the equality of love; not, as she had always feared, women's servitude in love – he has been well-schooled in this by his mother. The prince envisages a future where "The man may be more of woman, she of man". He says "my hopes and thine are one" and asks her to place her trust in him. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conclusion">Conclusion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Conclusion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the Conclusion, the narrator reflects on how to tell the long story, noting that the events are "Too comic for the solemn things they are, / Too solemn for the comic touches in them." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_opinion">Critical opinion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Critical opinion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The Princess</i> has divided opinion about where Tennyson's sympathies lay. The poet's son <a href="/wiki/Hallam_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Hallam Tennyson">Hallam</a> wrote that his father held that "the sooner woman finds out, before the great educational movement begins, that 'woman is not undevelopt man, but diverse', the better it will be for the progress of the world."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cool reception of the piece "seems to have led Tennyson to revise the poem after publication more extensively than any of his others".<sup id="cite_ref-Shaw_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shaw-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The early view that Tennyson was sympathetic to a progressive view of women's education but found it expedient to subordinate it to the dictates of <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian</a> society<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> led the poet to rebalance <i>The Princess</i> by adding the interlude songs in his 1850 revision: "I thought that the poem would explain itself, but the public did not see the drift."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The songs, which relate to the contemporary world of Tennyson's time, are in contrast to the main narrative, which is male-oriented, with a mock-mediaeval setting. Thus, it can be argued, Tennyson balanced the anti-feminist message of the men's narrative with the practical progressiveness displayed in the women's songs.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other critics conclude that the final message of the narrative is plain and anti-feminist.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works_based_on_The_Princess">Works based on <i>The Princess</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Works based on The Princess"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/W._S._Gilbert" title="W. S. Gilbert">W. S. Gilbert</a>, perhaps attracted by Tennyson's serio-comic treatment of the subject of women's education,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> adapted and parodied the poem twice. First, in 1870, he produced a musical farce called <i><a href="/wiki/The_Princess_(play)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Princess (play)">The Princess</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, in 1884, he adapted his farce into a <a href="/wiki/Comic_opera" title="Comic opera">comic opera</a> with composer <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Sullivan" title="Arthur Sullivan">Arthur Sullivan</a> entitled <i><a href="/wiki/Princess_Ida" title="Princess Ida">Princess Ida</a></i>, which is still performed regularly today. </p><p>Other musical works inspired by the poem include a setting of "As Through the Land" composed by the poet <a href="/wiki/Edward_Lear" title="Edward Lear">Edward Lear</a> in his lesser-known capacity as a composer.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams" title="Ralph Vaughan Williams">Ralph Vaughan Williams</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frank_Bridge" title="Frank Bridge">Frank Bridge</a> composed settings for the "<a href="/wiki/Tears,_Idle_Tears" title="Tears, Idle Tears">Tears, Idle Tears</a>" section of <i>The Princess</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Gustav_Holst" title="Gustav Holst">Gustav Holst</a> set "Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, Holst wrote a set of five songs for female voices based on Tennyson's work including "<a href="/wiki/Sweet_and_Low_(poem)" title="Sweet and Low (poem)">Sweet and Low</a>", "The Splendour Falls", "Tears, Idle Tears", "O Swallow, Swallow" and "<a href="/wiki/Now_Sleeps_the_Crimson_Petal" title="Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal">Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal</a>" while he was teaching at a girls' school in South London.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among later musical works inspired by <i>The Princess</i> are <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Britten" title="Benjamin Britten">Benjamin Britten</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Serenade_for_Tenor,_Horn_and_Strings" title="Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings">Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings</a></i>, which includes a setting of "The splendour falls",<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a setting of "Ask me no more" by <a href="/wiki/Ned_Rorem" title="Ned Rorem">Ned Rorem</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/John_Melhuish_Strudwick" title="John Melhuish Strudwick">John Melhuish Strudwick</a>'s painting <a href="/wiki/File:John_Melhuish_Strudwick17.jpg" title="File:John Melhuish Strudwick17.jpg"><i>Oh Swallow, Swallow</i></a> is based on this poem. </p><p>Single LOST by ASC feat. <a href="/wiki/Tom_Hiddleston" title="Tom Hiddleston">Tom Hiddleston</a> released April 17, 2019, East Records.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See, for example, Tucker (2009), forward</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The college was not quite a higher education institution in the modern sense: it admitted girls and women from the age of twelve upwards, and is now an independent secondary school for girls: see Cockburn, King & McDonnell 1968, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol1/pp311-312">311-312</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Even then, it was not recognised as a full constituent of the university until 1948. See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/about/college-history/">Girton's official website</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tennyson must have been aware of a number of earlier writings about women's higher education as he wrote the poem. See Zimmerman, p. 77.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Both settings are for voice and piano, and they were composed, respectively, in 1902 and 1905.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Scott-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Scott_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Scott_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Scott (1992).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Lang-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Lang_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Lang_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lang (1904), Chapter IV – 1842–1848 — The Princess.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Zimmerman (2008), p. 77.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ross (1912), p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/fourthgeneration00rossiala#page/16/mode/1up">16</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tennyson, Hallam (2005), p. 206.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Shaw-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Shaw_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Shaw_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Shaw_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Shaw_8-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Shaw_8-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Shaw (2003).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-oxford-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-oxford_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-oxford_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Mack & Strobel (2008).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lefkowitz (2007), p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ImkC7nDhOBcC&dq=Tennyson+%22The+Princess%22+women+education&pg=PA1">1</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-drabble-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-drabble_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-drabble_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Drabble (2000), p. 817.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tennyson, Hallam (2005), p. 249, <i>quoted</i> in Clapp-Itnyre (2000), p. 230.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Clapp-Itnyre (2000), p. 227.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tennyson, Hallam (2005), p. 254, <i>quoted</i> in Clapp-Itnyre (2000), p. 230.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Clapp-Itnyre (2000), p. 238</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shaw, Marion. <i>Alfred Lord Tennyson</i> (1988), p. 47, <i>quoted</i> by Clapp-Itnyre (2000), p. 227.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Poems,_Chiefly_Lyrical" title="Poems, Chiefly Lyrical">Poems, Chiefly Lyrical</a></i> (1830)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Deserted_House" title="The Deserted House">The Deserted House</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Kraken_(poem)" title="The Kraken (poem)">The Kraken</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Lady_of_Shalott" title="The Lady of Shalott">The Lady of Shalott</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Lotos-Eaters" title="The Lotos-Eaters">The Lotos-Eaters</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Mariana_(poem)" title="Mariana (poem)">Mariana</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Oenone_(poem)" title="Oenone (poem)">Oenone</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Mariana_in_the_South" title="Mariana in the South">Mariana in the South</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Miller%27s_Daughter_(poem)" title="The Miller's Daughter (poem)"><i>The Miller's Daughter</i></a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Claribel_(poem)" title="Claribel (poem)">Claribel</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Oriana" title="The Ballad of Oriana">The Ballad of Oriana</a>"</li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="6" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px;padding-left: 0.5em;"><div><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron.jpg/86px-Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron.jpg/129px-Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron.jpg/172px-Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron.jpg 2x" 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the King">Idylls of the King</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H." title="In Memoriam A.H.H.">In Memoriam A.H.H.</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Lady_Clara_Vere_de_Vere" title="Lady Clara Vere de Vere">Lady Clara Vere de Vere</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Locksley_Hall" title="Locksley Hall">Locksley Hall</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Now_Sleeps_the_Crimson_Petal" title="Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal">Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Poems_(Tennyson,_1842)" title="Poems (Tennyson, 1842)">Poems</a></i> (1842)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Palace_of_Art" title="The Palace of Art">The Palace of Art</a>"</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Princess</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sir_Galahad_(poem)" title="Sir Galahad (poem)">Sir Galahad</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/St._Simeon_Stylites_(poem)" title="St. Simeon Stylites (poem)">St. Simeon Stylites</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sweet_and_Low_(poem)" title="Sweet and Low (poem)">Sweet and Low</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tears,_Idle_Tears" title="Tears, Idle Tears">Tears, Idle Tears</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Two_Voices" title="The Two Voices">The Two Voices</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ulysses_(poem)" title="Ulysses (poem)">Ulysses</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Late poetry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Crossing_the_Bar" title="Crossing the Bar">Crossing the Bar</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Eagle_(poem)" title="The Eagle (poem)">The Eagle</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Enoch_Arden" title="Enoch Arden">Enoch Arden</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Flower_in_the_Crannied_Wall" title="Flower in the Crannied Wall">Flower in the Crannied Wall</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Higher_Pantheism" title="The Higher Pantheism">The Higher Pantheism</a>"</li> <li><i><a 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