La belle dame sans mercy et les Poésies lyriques by Alain Chartier

xii-xiv.ġ2 Above citations and summary of the various arguments on Chartier's poem are from Brown, p. The French poem that Roos translates itself enjoyed enormous popularity on the continent some fifteen or twenty years earlier, inspiring, amongst other things, a host of literary rebuttals.ĩ Arthur Piaget gives a list of the French reworkings of and reactions to Chartier's poem, pp. Nevertheless, the fact that only one copy of the French poem survives in an English manuscript, while there are seven manuscripts that include at least a part of the translation, suggests that the English translation is more probable in the case of the Pastons as well. It is not possible to know for certain whether the Pastons owned French or English versions of the poem, since the two share the same title. liv).ħ This is clear from the pre-1480 inventory of their library, printed in The Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, ed. Critical responses to the French poem have been more abundant, but they too reveal as much about our expectations and biases as modern readers as they do about the poem's own preoccupations or concerns.Ħ Skeat gives the order of the lines: 1-428, 669-716, 525-572, 477-524, 621-668, 573-620, 429-476, 717-856, which, he explains, reflects the copying of this group of manuscripts from an exemplar in which 'three leaves, each containing six stanzas, were misarranged' (1897, p. 112.ģ See paintings by John William Waterhouse (1893), Frank Herbe Dicksee (1902), and Frank Cadogan Cowper (1926).Ĥ Lewis, pp. In his Life of John Keats, William Michael Rossetti says that the title 'was suggested to Keats by seeing it at the head of a translation from Alain Chartier in a copy of Chaucer' (London: Walter Scott, 1887), p. 61-62).Ģ See Keats' letter to George and Georgiana Keats of 14 February- (in Letters of John Keats: A Selection, ed.

1-7) and includes a table comparing the lists of Thynne (1542), Leland, and John Bale (1557-59 1548) (pp.

Hammond reprints Leland's Life of Chaucer (pp. 65), the poem was also left out of John Leland's list of Chaucer's works, which appeared in his Life of Chaucer in Com-mentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis, posthumously published in 1709 (Leland died in 1552 Hammond, pp. LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCY, INTRODUCTION: FOOTNOTESġ See Eleanor Prescott Hammond (1908), p.

La belle dame sans mercy et les Poésies lyriques by Alain Chartier