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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 ...
Its title is a quote from John Keats' 1819 poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci. [1] Plot
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".
Madrigal "La Belle Dame sans merci" (5 parts) (Keats), p, c. 1914; Carol "When Christ was born" (Harleian MS), p. 1915; Choral song "And did those feet in ancient time" ("Jerusalem") , p. 1916; Six Motets, Songs of Farewell p. 1916–1918 [1. My soul, there is a country / words by Henry Vaughan. 2.
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In Harl. manuscript 372 the poem of "La Belle Dame sanz Mercy," first printed in William Thynne's Chaucer (1532), has the ascription "Translatid out of Frenche by Sir Richard Ros." "La Belle Dame sanz Mercy" is a long and rather dull poem from the French of Alain Chartier , and dates from about the middle of the 15th century.