Dore’s Illustrations for “Paradise Lost” (Dover Pictorial Archives)

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Gustave Doré’s Romantic style of illustration, supremely imaginative and richly detailed, used to be ideally suited to literary subjects. His wood-engraved illustrations for John Milton’s monumental epic poem Paradise Lost, recounting mankind’s fall from the grace of God in the course of the work of Satan, were among his finest and most dramatic works. This volume presents very good reproductions of all 50 plates drawn by Doré 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 illustrator’s art. A few of 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, the Flood, Moses holding up the Ten Commandments, and the fearsome creatures Milton known as “Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.”
The dreamlike, otherworldly quality Doré ceaselessly brought to his work turns out especially appropriate for Paradise Lost with its lofty spirit and epic events. Indeed, Doré’s grand conception turns out to realize perfectly Milton’s own poetic version. Appropriate quotes from the text of Paradise Lost are printed alongside each and every illustration. A plot summary of all of the poem could also be included.

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