The Chapel in Lyoness

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"The Chapel in Lyoness" is a narrative poem by William Morris that blends medieval romance and mythic atmosphere, characteristic of his early Pre-Raphaelite-inspired verse.

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instanceOf narrative poem
author William Morris
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublicationYear 1858
form stanzaic narrative
genre medieval romance
romantic poetry
hasCentralMotif chapel
memory of a lost beloved
sea-flooded land
hasImagery religious imagery
ruined architecture
sea imagery
hasLiteraryDevice allusion
symbolism
vivid visual description
hasProtagonist unnamed knightly narrator
hasReception regarded as representative of Morris’s early Pre-Raphaelite style
hasSetting Lyoness
mythic medieval landscape
inCollection The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems
influencedBy Arthurian legend
Gothic romance
medieval literature
language English
literaryMovement Pre-Raphaelite
linked to: Pre-Raphaelite art
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
literaryTradition Victorian medievalism
meter accentual-syllabic verse
periodOfComposition early career of William Morris
publisher Bell and Daldy
relatedWork King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (legend cycle)
linked to: Arthurian legend

The Defence of Guenevere
style mythic atmosphere
theme chivalric love
faith and doubt
legendary lands
loss and longing
medievalism
tone dreamlike
melancholic

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The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems hasPoem The Chapel in Lyoness