"Lamia" is a narrative

Narrative

A narrative is a constructive format that describes a sequence of non-fictional or fictional events. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare, "to recount", and is related to the adjective gnarus, "knowing" or "skilled"...

 poem written by English poet John Keats

John Keats

John Keats was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.Although his poems were not...

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Believing himself a failure as a poet, Keats asked for his tombstone to read "Here lies one whose name was writ in water". However, he has since become one of the most highly regarded poets of the English language and his works, despite appalling criticism from the contemporary Tory press, have become widely read.

The poem was written in 1819, and comes within Keats' most brilliant period - it was written soon after 'La belle dame sans merci' and his odes on Melancholy, on Indolence, to a Grecian Urn and to a Nightingale and just before arguably his most famous poem, 'Ode to Autumn'.