![]() ![]() ![]() The poem has almost none of the poetic conventions (except the debate form) which are found in Chartier’s other poems, as well as in those of the majority of his contemporaries. A second example, from 1965: “The Débat patriotique is the best of Alain Chartier’s poems. Kay, “ La Belle Dame Sans Mercy and the Success of Failure” in Romance Notes VI, p. The fact that he was unable to make the framework of conventional courtly love poetry fully serve his personal vision is borne out by his later choice of prose as the instrument of his greatest works.” (W. It is the failure of Chartier’s poem to reflect the contemporary world of 1424. 243.Īs recently as 1964 we find an American scholar describing the Belle dame in these terms: “Behind all these levels of failure one might see yet another one, never hinted at in the poem, but lurking vaguely in the background. Martin le Franc, Prévot de Lausanne, (thesis, Geneva Lausanne, 1888), p. 34-42 and passim.Īrthur Piaget, “La Belle Dame sans merci et ses imitations,” Romania, XXX (1901), 22.Īnatole de Montaiglon, Les poètes français (Paris, 1861), Vol. Hoffman, A lain Chartier, His Work and Reputation (New York, 1942), pp. ![]()
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