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  2. La Belle Dame sans Merci - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Ann Taylor (poet) - Wikipedia

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    It is true that Jane achieved much more than Ann as a writer of poetry for an adult readership – though Ann's poem "The Maniac's Song", published in the Associate Minstrels (1810), was probably the finest short poem by either sister, and it has been postulated as an inspiration for Keats's La Belle Dame sans Merci (Lynette Felber: Ann Taylor ...

  4. La Belle Dame sans Mercy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. 1819 in literature - Wikipedia

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    Between April 21 and the end of May Keats writes La Belle Dame sans Merci and most of his major odes: Ode to Psyche, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Indolence and Ode on Melancholy. In the summer he writes Lamia; on September 19 he writes his ode To Autumn at Winchester; [2] and on October 19 proposes marriage to Fanny.

  6. John William Waterhouse - Wikipedia

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    Waterhouse was born in the city of Rome to the English painters William and Isabella Waterhouse in 1849, in the same year that the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, were first causing a stir in the London art scene. [3]

  7. Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Wikipedia

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    The three characters, according to Yeats, represent the "principles of the mind;" whereas Robartes is intellectually powerful and Hanrahan represents Romantic primitivism, Aedh is pale, lovelorn, and in the thrall of La belle dame sans merci. [1]

  8. List of compositions by Hubert Parry - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Cyril Scott - Wikipedia

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    La belle dame sans merci, for baritone, chorus and orchestra (1915–17) Festival Overture, for chorus and orchestra (1929) Mystic Ode, for chorus and chamber orchestra (1932) Summerland, for chorus and orchestra (1935) Ode to Great Men, for tenor, female chorus and orchestra (1936) Hymn to Unity, for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1947)