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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 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 ...
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 ...
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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)