Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
In the twenty-first century, John Keats's canonical poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci" has been given new lives through visual adaptations. [i] Hidetoshi Oneda's fifteen-minute film (2005), which adds a ship-wreck frame narrative that doubles the poem's existing frame narrative, was the first of several short movie versions of "La Belle Dame."[ii] Amidst these cinematic adaptations, in 2013 PM Buchanan and Karen Yumi Lusted began publishing a serialized graphic narrative anime version that, according to one reviewer, "drags The Beautiful Lady out of the forest and screaming into the modern world."[iii] Buchanan and Lusted's adaptation has received considerable fanfare in the midst of a print and digital poetry comics boom that has brought Julian Peters's and Neil Cohn's versions of "La Belle Dame" to an international audience.[iv]
Repository Citation
Bates, Brian. "Graphic and Digital Keats: “La Belle Dame sans Merci” in Poetry Comics." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 16, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1–22. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol16/iss1/4