“La Belle Dame Sans Merci – A Tone Poem” by Fletcher Cunniff

Posted on July 22, 2020 by julian peters comics

A very cool and haunting musical composition by Fletcher Cunniff, inspired by John Keats’s 1819 poem, “la Belle Dame Sans Merci.” The track integrates an old vinyl recording of an exquisitely quavering, Mid-Atlantic-accented reading by the American character actor Theo Marcuse (1920-1967) and is accompanied in this video (also by Cunniff) with illustrations from my comics interpretation of the poem.

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3 Responses to “La Belle Dame Sans Merci – A Tone Poem” by Fletcher Cunniff

  1. Pingback: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci – A Tone Poem” by Fletcher Cunniff | Life in Rhymes / Vida em Versos

  2. manhogful says:
    July 23, 2020 at 10:31 am

    Great interpretation of a classic poem! Has your comics version appeared in print?

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