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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]
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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.
On April 3, Charles Wentworth Dilke lets his house, next door to Keats, to Mrs Brawne, whose daughter Fanny would become the love of Keats's life. 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.
John Lydgate studied him affectionately. His Belle Dame sans mercy was translated into English in the 15th century by Sir Richard Ros, with an introduction of his own; and Clément Marot and Octavien de Saint-Gelais, writing fifty years after his death, find many fair words for the old poet, their master and predecessor. [5]
Keats wrote this poem in February 1819, after The Eve of Saint Agnes but before La Belle Dame sans Merci. [2] It opens, "Upon a Sabbath-day it fell;" and describes the streets of a cathedral town as the residents head to Evensong. Keats later described it as an attempt to create the "spirit of quietude".
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.
Acrostic: Georgiana Augusta Keats (1818) Sweet, Sweet is the Greeting of Eyes (1818) Meg Merrilies (1818) Lines Written in the Highlands after a Visit to Burns's Country (1818) At Fingal's Cave (1818) The Gadfly (1818) Ben Nevis: A Dialogue (1818) Spenserian Stanza (In after-time, a sage of mickle lore...) (1818) A Prophecy (To George Keats in ...