Summary

• Story of a knight who had a romantic encounter with a mysterious woman in the meadows.
• She seduced him with her beauty and magical allure, and took him back to her magical cave.
• She then lulled him to sleep and abandoned him
• In his sleep he saw kings, princes and warriors who had previously been seduced by the lady - they warned him of his fate, but it was too late.
• He awoke alone, tormented by the memory of her.
• Keats reverses the traditional medieval romance, normally a knight falls in love with a beautiful lady and has to win her over, but here the knight is seduced by the beautiful woman and she ruins him.