title: A dream, a sonnet, and a ballad: the path to Keats's "La Belle Dame sans Merci".
abstract: This paper explores the relationship between Keats's ballad, "La Belle Dame sans Merci," and some of its precursors, including one of the poet's dreams and a sonnet titled "On a Dream." The process of creativity is examined.
mesh_terms: D003405:Creativity; D004325:Dreams; D005201:Fantasy; D006801:Humans; D011037:Poetry as Topic; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation