The RavenThe Raven Edgar Allan Poe - In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century, Edgar Allan Poe's renowned poem The Raven found perhaps its most perfect artistic interpreter. Doré's dreamlike, otherworldly style, tinged with melancholy, seems ideally matched to the bleak despair of Poe's celebrated work, among the most popular American poems ever written.This volume reprints all 26 of Doré's detailed, masterly engravings from a rare 19th-century edition of the poem. Relevant lines from the poem are printed on facing pages and the complete text is also included. Admirers of Doré will find ample evidence here of his characteristic ability to capture the mood and meaning of a work of literature in striking imagery; lovers of The Raven will delight in seeing its mournful musing on love and loss given dramatic pictorial form. |
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... heard , never forgotten , like the tone of a rarely used but distinctive organ - stop . Notable among them is Bürger's " Lenore , " that ghostly and resonant ballad , the lure and foil of the translators . Few will deny that Coleridge's ...
... heard , never forgotten , like the tone of a rarely used but distinctive organ - stop . Notable among them is Bürger's " Lenore , " that ghostly and resonant ballad , the lure and foil of the translators . Few will deny that Coleridge's ...
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alliteration angels he hath angels name Lenore Annabel Lee artist balm in Gilead?-tell beauty bird or fiend bust of Pallas chamber door death Doré draughtsman Edgar Allan Poe eyes Fancy unto fancy forgotten lore genius Gilead?-tell me-tell hath lent thee-by Haunted Palace heart home by Horror implore Juif-Errant kind nepenthe lamplight gloating o'er late visiter entreating Ligeia lost Lenore melancholy melody memories of Lenore Miss Barrett's mystery explore name Lenore Nameless nepenthe from thy Nevermore Night's Plutonian shore passion Perched Philosophy of Composition poet poet's poetic purple curtain Thrilled quaff Quoth the Raven radiant maiden rare and radiant refrain Repetend Respite-respite and nepenthe rhyme romantic sad uncertain rustling sent thee Respite-respite seraphim whose foot-falls silken sad uncertain stanza surcease of sorrow-sorrow sure tapping Tell this soul tempest thee-by these angels things Ulalume unhappy master velvet sinking velvet violet lining visiter entreating entrance Wandering word our sign