Medieval Sources for Keatsian Creation in 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'

Author / Editor
Finlayson, J. Caitlin.

Title
Medieval Sources for Keatsian Creation in 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'

Published
Philological Quarterly 79 : 225-47, 2000.

Description
A major source of Keats's poem is the Middle English "La Belle Dame sans Mercy," mistakenly attributed to Chaucer in the 1782 edition of "The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," which Keats owned.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucerian Apocrypha.