![]() ![]() ![]() The illustrator: Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who worked primarily with wood-engraving. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse. Many consider it to be one of his best works. His mastery of human anatomy, background detail, shading, and layout are evident on every page of Paradise Lost. The author: John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, a man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. About the Artist: Master artist Gustave Dorè (1832-1883), known for the lavish illustrations in Dante’s Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise, Dorè’s London: A Pilgrimage, and Don Quixote. The book: Rare, nice, and attractively illustrated edition of Milton's Paradise Lost. Among the events depicted: the expulsion of Satan from Heaven, Adam and Eve in Paradise, the nine-day fall of Lucifer's legions to Hell, the Creation, the temptation of Eve, and the Flood. Illustrations: Complete with all the numerous wonderful full-page illustrations by Gustave Doré. ![]() Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, no date (circa 1890).īinding: Attractive and very good illustrated full cloth binding, all edges gilt (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.Ĭontent: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean - as shown). Title: Milton's Paradise Lost Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Walsh (editor) Gustave Dore (illustrator). "His theories of republicanism, of the people's right to overthrow a magistrate, or a king, or any ruler if they were not carrying out the will of the people, was directly influential on the Constitution of this country," says Kiely.Īmong other contributions Milton made to our culture are new words: He coined the phrase "self-esteem" in a prose essay, and the hundreds of words in Paradise Lost, including "pandemonium" - which literally means "the place of all the demons."Īnd Milton, who visited Galileo in 1638, was also the first writer to ever use the word "space," in the sense of "outer space," to consider the infinite scope of the universe. Kiely says that Milton opposed the monarchy in England - and that the founding fathers read him. It was published in 1777, one year into the American Revolution. It's a great act of human heroism that it was ever created."Ī rare first American edition of Paradise Lost is included in the Morgan Library exhibit. "And we have, as a result, this extraordinarily beautiful poem. "So he was, day after day, packet after packet," says Kerrigan. When the secretary was late, Milton was said to have grumbled around the house, "I want to be milked. He recited the entire work to an assistant, 40 lines each morning for five years, says William Kerrigan. Paradise Lost is more remarkable for the way it was created: When Milton began writing the poem in 1658, he had been blind for four years. Very good in brown leather-like covered boards with 3 inch tear starting at top of front hinge and crossing the spine, mild wear to tips of boards, one small knick. everyone bowed their head as if they were in church." Edited with notes and a life of Milton by Robert Vaughan. "Last week, we played a recording of the first 26 lines to a group that was visiting, recited by Actor Mark Rylance. "And the sublimity of its subject matter is matched by the sustained beauty of its language."Īt the Morgan Library, Kiely says people have "almost genuflected" in front of this manuscript: "There's a great sense of reverence in the room whenever I visit it," says Kiely. It describes gods and monsters," he says. Kerrigan calls it the greatest work of its kind in the English language: Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost, is an unrhymed poem in iambic pentameter that chronicles the biblical fall of man and covers creation, the great battle of the angels, original sin and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. All of this, along with some of the greatest poetry in the history of the world." "He published the first book devoted to censorship. He was an interesting man, politically - one of the first European intellectuals to argue in favor of divorce on the grounds of lack of spiritual companionship," says Kerrigan. " was a very great poet, a great mythmaker. Scholar William Kerrigan, the editor of the Modern Library's Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, says there's plenty to celebrate. "It's a 33-page manuscript, and you can see eight pages in the exhibition." List of all 760 artworks by Gustave Dore.Gustave Dore Tarot. "You'll never have another opportunity to see as many openings as there are here," says Kiely. The following 60 files are in this category. ![]()
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