Tag: John Keats

Literature

A Summary and Analysis of John Keats’s ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ (‘the beautiful lady without mercy’) is one of John Keats’s best-loved and most widely anthologised poems; after his odes, it may well be his most famous. But is this poem with its French title a mere piece of pseudo-medieval […]