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                <text>&amp;lsquo;On Tapestry&amp;rsquo;, &lt;em&gt;The Bulletin&lt;/em&gt;, 14 July 1910</text>
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                <text>Ballad, chivalry, Courtly Love, crusade, E. J. Brady (1869-1952), Holy Land, joust,  knight, romance.</text>
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                <text>This engaging &amp;ldquo;McCrae-like medieval narrative ballad&amp;rdquo; (John B. Webb, &amp;ldquo;A Critical Biography of Edwin James Brady 1869-1952&amp;rdquo; PhD Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1972, p.95) concerns the fortunes of a triad of ill-starred lovers. On one hand there is brave Sir Maurice, the wealthy and impetuous knight who excels in chivalric conduct but who is tragically slain while crusading in the Holy Land. On the other is the golden-haired Lady Alice, a romantic counterpart for him who naively &amp;ldquo;vowed [...] Her Lord he&amp;rsquo;d be&amp;rdquo;. Unknown to either of these two quixotically tempered day-dreaming protagonists is the real target of Cupid&amp;rsquo;s dart, the &amp;ldquo;crow-haired&amp;rdquo; ladies maid, who recognises from the outset that her suit is hopeless, and who must content herself with plaintive prayers and &amp;ldquo;A [hasty] daylight glance.&amp;rdquo; The tragedy of the missed opportunity that is all too often &amp;lsquo;staring you in the face&amp;rsquo; is a theme that Brady also favours and highlights in his less accomplished, more light-hearted medievalist poem, &amp;lsquo;On Keira (See: &lt;a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1032" target="_self"&gt;http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1032&lt;/a&gt;).&amp;rsquo;</text>
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                <text>&lt;a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1032" target="_self"&gt;http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1032&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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              <text>&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/col/work/4068" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"&gt;http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/col/work/4068&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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                <text>&lt;p&gt;This painting by English artist Arthur Hughes was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1919 with funds from the Felton Bequest. It portrays a scene from&amp;nbsp;the well-known ballad of the same name penned in 1819 by Romantic poet John Keats. The poem is a tale of unrequited love featuring an Arthurian knight and a beautiful woman he meets in the woods. Described by Keats as a &amp;lsquo;faery&amp;rsquo;s child&amp;rsquo;, the woman woos the knight with songs, food&amp;nbsp;and promises of love, before taking him back to her elfin grot and lulling him to sleep. While asleep, however, he dreams of death-pale kings, princes and warriors crying &amp;ldquo;La Belle Dame sans merci/Thee hath in thrall!&amp;rdquo; before waking up alone on a cold hillside. In the painting, the infatuated knight is pictured in the woods shortly after he has met the beautiful woman and lifted her onto his horse. In the background, the apparitions of the pale figures he will later dream of are visible, trying to convey their warning in vain. Keats borrowed the title for his Arthurian ballad from a fifteenth-century courtly love poem by Alain Chartier.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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