Gustave Doreacute;s Romantic style of illustration; supremely imaginative and richly detailed; was ideally suited to literary subjects. His wood-engraved illustrations for John Miltons monumental epic poem Paradise Lost; recounting mankinds fall from the grace of God through the work of Satan; were among his finest and most dramatic works. This volume presents superb reproductions of all 50 plates drawn by Doreacute; and engraved in his studios for the original edition of Paradise Lost.Artists and art lovers will find in these pages supreme examples of the illustrators art. Among the events depicted: the expulsion of Satan from heaven; Adam and Eve in Paradise; the nine-day fall of Lucifers legions to Hell; the Creation; the temptation of Eve; the Flood; Moses holding up the Ten Commandments; and the fearsome creatures Milton referred to as "Gorgons; and Hydras; and Chimeras dire."The dreamlike; otherworldly quality Doreacute; often brought to his work seems especially appropriate for Paradise Lost with its lofty spirit and epic events. Indeed; Doreacute;s grand conception seems to realize perfectly Miltons own poetic version. Appropriate quotes from the text of Paradise Lost are printed alongside each illustration. A plot summary of the entire poem is also included.
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