The Eve of St. Agnes
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association with "La Belle Dame sans merci"
- In La Belle Dame sans merci
…a counterpart to Keats’s “The Eve of St. Agnes,” which represents an idyllic view of love. Keats took his title from a medieval poem with the same name by the French poet Alain Chartier.
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discussed in biography
- In John Keats: The year 1819
…weaknesses of Endymion, but “The Eve of St. Agnes” may be considered the perfect culmination of Keats’s earlier poetic style. Written in the first flush of his meeting with Brawne, it conveys an atmosphere of passion and excitement in its description of the elopement of a pair of youthful…
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Gothic poetry
- In Gothic novel
“The Eve of St. Agnes” and “La Belle Dame sans merci” (both composed in 1819), and Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” (1862), as well as pieces by Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Algernon Charles Swinburne. In the United States, Edgar Allan Poe’s intensely moody
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use of anadiplosis
- In anadiplosis
…two of John Keats’s poem “The Eve of St. Agnes”:
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