La Belle Dame sans Merci Summary
John Keats

Everything you need to understand or teach La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats.

  • La Belle Dame sans Merci Summary & Study Guide
  • 3 Student Essays
  • ...and more

La Belle Dame sans Merci Summary

"La Belle Dame sans Merci," written in 1819 and published the next year in a form slightly different from the one here, depicts a knight-at-arms who has been seduced and abandoned by a capricious fairy. Told in the form of a dialogue, the poem recounts the experience of loving dangerously and fully, of remaining loyal to that love despite warnings to the contrary, and of suffering the living death of one who has glimpsed...

(read more from the Study Guide)

Study Pack

The La Belle Dame sans Merci Study Pack contains:

La Belle Dame sans Merci Study Guide

You might also be interested in: