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Special Exhibition - The Beautiful lady without mercy

Special Exhibition - The Beautiful lady without mercy

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May 20, 2025
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In my opinion, La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats is one of the greatest poems in the English language.

Telling the story of a poor knight who falls under the spell of a fairy/temptress - it is a work which captures so perfectly this sense of doomed romance, and how the act of falling in love (which is supposed to be our greatest blessing) can also e…

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