![]() ![]() The Poetical Works of Alain Chartier, Cambridge, 1974. ![]() ![]() The Trials of Alain Chartiers Belle Dame Sans Mercy: The Poems in Their. Kibler, The Narrator as Key to Alain Chartier's La Belle Dame sans mercy, in The French Review, LII, n° 5 (April 1979), p. captivity by composing a sort of lyric journal entitled Livre de prison. Kay, La Belle Dame sans Mercy and the success of Failure, in Romance Notes, VI, n° 1 (1964), p. Hoffman, Alain Chartier : His work and Reputation, New York, 1942. Walravens, Alain Chartier, études biographiques, suivies de pièces justificatives, d'une description des éditions et d'une édition des ouvrages inédits, Amsterdam, 1971.Ģ. For a similarly organised but more recent work, see C. Pierre Champion, Histoire Poétique du Quinzième Siècle, Paris, 1923. Written in or around 1424, the 100 huitains of octosyllabic verse that make up the poem consist of the record of a verbal exchange of a man and his unwilling lady as well as framing material both at the beginning and the end which allows the narrator of the poem to takeġ. Early studies of Alain Chartier's poetic work and of his most popular piece, La Belle Dame sans mercy, focused either on the apparently biographical information that would help constitute a poetic autobiography of Chartier himself ', or on the allusions (or lack of them) to contemporary events, including Chartier's supposed political or social partisanship 2. ![]()
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