World Literature since 1660-Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
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Artists have several renderings of Keats' famous maid and the knight she enslaved. Which rendering most fits with your reading of Keats' poem? (Paintings are courtesy of artmagick.com).
La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1865)by Walter Crane
La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1861-3)by Arthur Hughes
La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1893)by John William Waterhouse
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee,1853-1928)
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Frank Cowper is a modern artist. How does his rendition differ from those painted by nineteenth century artists?