Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson: Facts

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Hawaiian Chiefess Kapiʻolani's walk into an active volcano in 1824 was the subject of a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?
William Britten illustrated many images from Lord Tennyson's early poems, including: a lonely woman (pictured), a corpse, a jilted lover, drug users, an odd saint, a sleeping lady, a knight, and waves?
samite was a luxurious and heavy silk fabric worn in the Middle Ages, and famously by Tennyson's Lady of the Lake (pictured)?
John William Waterhouse's 1888 painting The Lady of Shalott (pictured), based on Alfred Tennyson's 1832 poem, portrays the Lady sailing towards Camelot and certain death?

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