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?LA BELLE DAME QUI EUST MERCY? AND ?LE DIALOGUE D?AMOUREUX E IBD

MODERN HUMANITIES RESEARCH ASS
09 / 2018
9781781882856
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La Belle Dame qui eust mercyáandáLe Dialogue d&rsquo,amoureux et de sa dameáare two late-medieval poems in which a courtly gentleman and lady debate the merits of his pleas for her affections. In both cases, the lady is recalcitrant, dismissing her suitor&rsquo,s lovesickness as a trifle, denying that she ever gave any sign of encouragement, and wishing to protect her reputation. The lady ináLe Dialogueánever capitulates, in contrast, the Belle Dame ends by agreeing to her lover&rsquo,s suit and imagining a future in which they will joyfullyálive together.áBoth poems merit serious attention for their kinship with Alain Chartier&rsquo,sáLa Belle Dame sans mercyá(1424) and other poems in the so-called &ldquo,Belle Dame&rdquo, cycle. Their presence in numerous fifteenth- and sixteenth-century manuscript and printed collections attests to their appeal in their day. Equally as significant is their unusual bipartite stanzaïc structure, suggesting amalgamation of separate poems and/or continuations of existing poems. Such an anomaly complicates attribution of authorship and dating, but close study ofáLa Belle Dame qui eust mercyáandáLe Dialogue d&rsquo,amoureux et de sa dameácan only enhance our understanding of the process(es) of poetic composition, as well as theámise en pageáand reception of literary works, in the late Middle Ages.áá

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