French Literature: Biographies

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‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’

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‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’, a ballad by Keats, written 1819, published 1820, which describes a knight fatally enthralled by an elfin woman. The ballad was much admired by the Pre-Raphaelites and W. Morris asserted that ‘it was the germ from which all the poetry of his group had sprung’. La Belle Dame sans mercy is also the title of a poem translated from Alain Chartier, attributed at one time to Chaucer.

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Alain Chartier

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Alain Chartier , b. c.1385, d. c.1433, French writer, secretary to Charles VII. His most popular work was the love poem La Belle Dame sans mercy (1424), which provided Keats with a title. Le Quadrilogue invectif (1422), a political pamphlet in vigorous prose, called for French solidarity to combat the turmoil of the Hundred Years War.

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