A 1901 watercolor rendering of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", by English painter Henry Meynell Rheam. Note that the bleak atmosphere of the poem is reflected in the gloomy chromatic choices in the painting. Rheam has also included a visual depiction of one of the other "pale kings and Princes too" (37) who has fallen to the Belle Dame's charm.
The Question and Answer section for Keats’ Poems and Letters is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Micuta Mariam
Keats was certainly ambivalent about women. He was unsure about how they wanted to be treated; how he should treat them; he wasn't even quite sure if it wouldn't be best to have nothing to do with them at all...they got in the way of...
A visiting friend named Charles Brown, wrote about the moment Keats wrote his famous poem Ode to a Nightingale.
In the spring of 1819 a nightingale had built her nest near my house. Keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in her song; and one...
