when was sleeping beauty written
1 Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote two poems based on Sleeping Beauty, Sleeping Beauty in 1830, and an expanded, rewritten version, . 2  The Day-Dream , in 1842. 3  In 1949, the story was made into a Finnish film, Prinsessa Ruusunen, directed by Edvin Laine and score by Erkki Melartin's incidental music from 1912.