La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats Chapter
About the Poet - John Keats John Keats (1795-1821), an apothecary's apprentice. abandoned his medical profession to become a poet of beauty and verbal felicity. His imagery is colorful and sensuous and his word paintings are remarkable. Influenced by Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton, Keats's poetry blends the Romantic with the philosophical. Keats's poems were panned by critics during his lifetime, but his reputation as a poet grew steadily after his death with the increasing popularity of Romanticism. He is now seen as a key figure of the Romantic Movement in English literature. His works have greatly influenced later writers, and his letters and poems are still very popular today and studied in detail by students of literature. Keats's well-known poems are 'Lamia', 'Eve of StAgnes", ‘Isabella', 'Hyperion', 'Endymion' and his famous odes. Summary La Belle Dame sans Merci is one of the famous poems written by John Keats. It is a ball
