The Raven (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) - Softcover

Poe, Edgar Allan; Doré, Gustave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486290727 ISBN 13: 9780486290720

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 2000

Synopsis

All 27 of Doré's detailed, masterly engravings from a rare 19th-century edition of The Raven, among the most popular American poems ever written. Dreamlike, otherworldly illustrations perfectly capture the bleak despair and mournful musings of Poe's poem. Apposite quotations from the poem are printed on facing pages; complete text is also included.

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Review:

Price s vision of The Raven not only haunts, but also brings Poe s work back to life. An ideal resource for teachers and students."

Price s illustrations make the viewer pause and consider the cracks in the narrator s mind, and they provide glimpses into the strange, violent story behind his torment."

(Price s pictures) do a great job of evoking the brooding guilt, terror, and love in Poe s famous poem ? lengthy appended notes will spark discussion on both the poem and the art."

(Price's pictures) do a great job of evoking the brooding guilt, terror, and love in Poe's famous poem ... lengthy appended notes will spark discussion on both the poem and the art.--Booklist

Price's vision of The Raven not only haunts, but also brings Poe's work back to life. An ideal resource for teachers and students.--School Library Journal

Price's illustrations make the viewer pause and consider the cracks in the narrator's mind, and they provide glimpses into the strange, violent story behind his torment.--Toronto Star

From the Back Cover:

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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About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0486290727
• ISBN 13: 9780486290720
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64