Category Archives: John Keats

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

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 … Continue reading

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“Graphic and Digital Keats: ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ in Poetry Comics” – An Article by Brian Bates

Brian Bates, a Romanticism scholar teaching at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California, has published an article on the subject of three graphic adaptations of John Keats’s 1819 poem, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci.” Along with my … Continue reading

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Volume 2 of Le Canon graphique now in stores!

The second volume of the French-language edition of  The Graphic Canon, Russ Kick’s terrific anthology of graphic adaptations of the classics of world literature, is now available in fine bookstores near you (assuming you live in a French-speaking country). In … Continue reading

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“La Belle Dame Sans Merci” at the Keats-Shelley House

To my great delight, my comic book adaptation of John Keats’ “la Belle Dame Sans Merci” is to be included in an exhibition taking place this year at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome. http://www.keats-shelley-house.org/   The show, entitled “Illustrating Keats”, will include images … Continue reading

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats

My comic-book adaptation of the poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” by John Keats (1819)

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