Today we're celebrating Halloween and John Keats' birthday with a poem about a famous femme fatale: La Belle Dame sans Merci (the beautiful lady without pity). Readers beware!
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Resources:
Bush, Douglas, ed. Selected Poems and Letters. Riverside Edition, Houghton Mifflin. 1959.
Cowper, Francis Cadogan. “La Belle Dam Sans Merci.” 1926.Painting. https://www.artrenewal.org/artworks/la-belle-dam-sans-merci/frank-cadogan-cowper/4674
Dicksee, Frank Bernard. “La Belle Dame sans Merci.” 1901. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=55839908
Hughes, Arthur. “La Belle Dame sans Merci.” 1863. Painting. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3105116
Keats, John. “La Belle Dame sans Merci.” 1819. Poem. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44475/la-belle-dame-sans-merci-a-ballad
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Ed. George Armstrong Wauchope. McMillan. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15272/15272-h/15272-h.htm
Waterhouse, John William. “La Belle Dame sans Merci.” 1893. Painting. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_William_Waterhouse_-_La_Belle_Dame_sans_Merci_(1893).jpg
Image:
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