Add a touch of class to a room with this lady of shalott cushion coverinspired by painter john william waterhouse39s painting it is a representation of a scene from alfred lord tennyson39s 1832 poem of the same name in which the poet describes the plight of a young woman loosely based on the figure of elaine of astolat from medieval arthurian legendwho yearned with an unrequited love for the knight sir lancelot isolated under an undisclosed curse in a tower near king a