'La Belle Dame Sans Merci': Forthcoming Online Event for #Keats200

News of forthcoming online talks via Keats House Museum, Hampstead...

200 years of ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’:

Keats House Online Lectures

‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad’ was first published in The Indicator on 10 May 1820. To mark 200 years since the publication of one of Keats’s finest poems, Keats House are presenting a series of short online lectures for you to enjoy at home for free; look out for future details of the videos on ‘La Belle’ to be released in early June 2020.The poem may be based on medieval ballads, but it was also inspired by Keats’s favourite poets from the eighteenth century - Dr Tess Somervell (University of Leeds) will uncover some of these lesser-known influences. Professor Kelvin Everest (University of Liverpool) will consider in close detail the formal artistry of Keats's poem, discussing how the poem creates its distinctive atmosphere through subtle variations of line-length, rhyme, metre and rhythm, sound, speaker, and tense. Dr Anna Mercer (Cardiff University) will discuss how we might read Keats’s poem alongside works by other second-generation Romantic writers.Join in with your own thoughts on the poem with the hashtag #Keats200.Find Keats House on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.