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"La Belle Dame sans Merci" ("The Beautiful Lady without Mercy") is a ballad produced by the English poet John Keats in 1819. The title was derived from the title of a 15th-century poem by Alain Chartier called La Belle Dame sans Mercy. [1] Considered an English classic, the poem is an example of Keats' poetic preoccupation with love and death. [2]
The body of La Belle Dame sans Mercy is composed of 100 stanzas of alternating dialogue between a male lover and the lady he loves (referred to in the French as l'Amant et la Dame). Their dialogue is framed by the observations of the narrator-poet who is mourning the recent death of his lady.
He also wrote Débat du reveille-matin (1422–26?), La Belle Dame sans Mercy (1424), and others. [4] [5] In 1429 he wrote the Livre de l'Espérance, which contains a fierce attack on the nobility and clergy. He was the author of a diatribe on the courtiers of Charles VII, entitled Le Curial, translated into English by William Caxton about 1484 ...
The poem was written in 1819, during the famously productive period that produced his 1819 odes. It was composed soon after his "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and his odes on Melancholy, on Indolence, on a Grecian Urn and to a Nightingale and just before "To Autumn".
The poem describes the narrator's opinions on melancholy and is addressed specifically to the reader, unlike the narrative of many of the other odes. [10] The lyric nature of the poem allows the poet to describe the onset of melancholy and then provides the reader with different methods of dealing with the emotions involved.
Its title is a quote from John Keats' 1819 poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci. [1] Plot
The poem was a direct inspiration for John Keats' famous poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci. [ 29 ] Coleridge's early intellectual debts, besides German idealists like Kant and critics like Lessing, were first to William Godwin 's Political Justice , especially during his Pantisocratic period, and to David Hartley 's Observations on Man , which is ...
La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Dramatic Idyl for voice viola and piano (1925) [23] The Lonely Dancer of Gedar: oriental dance for small orchestra, op 36 (pub. 1926) Divertimento for piano and strings, op 44 (pub.1926) Peribanou, Chinese ballet (1927) Proposals, song cycle (1928) Lyric Interlude ‘Pathways of the Moon’, op 50 for chamber ensemble ...