Great Literature Illustrated

[Janine]

OOh, Janine, thanks for those Parrish pictures. One of them, the girl in blue with her head down in her hands, on the chair, is used as a cover of an Enya cd.

You know, now that you mentioned that I recall seeing it also on Enya's album cover. Do you know which cover it is? Actually, I though the painting by Parrish was a male, but maybe it is a female, perhaps a queen. I guess I was picturing it as a king who was in despear.

I plan on posting more Parrish pictures - I found many more last night but have to upload them to Photobucket first.
If you like the woman in blue you will like these I believe - they are quite blue; the first is a very famous one by Parrish; you may have seen it before; not sure which book or publication it was painted for originally. I think it is outstanding!

Ectasy


I love this one, too

Griselda


And here is one keeping in the spirit of the season called:

Harvest

[Janine]

William Blake
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Blake in an 1807 portrait by Thomas Phillips.
Born 28 November 1757(1757-11-28)
London, England
Died 12 August 1827 (aged 69)
London, England
Occupation Poet, Painter, Printmaker
Literary movement Romanticism

Influences
Bible, Dante Alighieri, John Milton, Emanuel Swedenborg

Influenced:
William Butler Yeats, Hart Crane, Kahlil Gibran, Allen Ginsberg, John Gardner

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake's work is now considered seminal in the history of both poetry and the visual arts. Blake's prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".[1] His visual artistry has led one modern critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".[2] Although he only once travelled any farther than a day's walk outside London over the course of his life,[3] his creative vision engendered a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced 'imagination' as "the body of God",[4] or "Human existence itself".[5]

For more on Blake see - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake

Infenrnosm


Abel


Sconfitta


Book of Urizen


The Blasphemer


Lake - Last Judgment


Job


Blake Illustration XI


Eve of the fall - "Paradise Lost"


Antaeus Setting Down Dante and Virgil

[Dark Muse]

I love the work of Blake

Here are some more










Of course I absolutely adore his Hecate

[Janine]

Wow, I like the ones you posted even better, Dark Muse. Those are so cool and the prints are really clear. I love that third one down; the second, firth and sixth are nothing to sneeze at. These are spectacular! Glad I checked back for a peek.

[Dark Muse]

For Halloween I have prepared this illustrated tribute to Edgar Allan Poe





Portraits By Félix Vallotton

Harry Clarke

Ligeia




The Murders in the Rue Morgue


The Tell-Tale Heart




The Masque of the Red Death




The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar


A Decent into the Maelstrom


The Cask of Amontillado


Pit and the Pendulum


The Premature Burial

[Dark Muse]

M.S. Found in a Bottle


Fall of the House of Usher


The Oval Portrait


The Man in the Crowd


The Gold Bug




The Black Cat

[Dark Muse]

The Raven by Dore

He has several images for this poem. I just picked out a few of my favorites.

[Dark Muse]

The Poetry of Poe by Edmund Dulac

Annabel Lee


Silence


Lenore


To Helen


The Haunted Place


The City in the Sea


The Sleeper


The Conqueror Worm


Eldorado

[Dark Muse]

To the River


Bridal Ballad


Fairy Land


Israfel


Dreamland


Alone

[Dark Muse]

Lenore by Hnery Sandham



The Raven by Tenniel

[Janine]

Dark Muse, this is an excellent tribute to Poe. I love the Clark's - so graphic and dramatic in the stark black and white. I love the Dore's and the Dulacs; I copied some of those (online to my own files) just the other day, but did not realise some of those Dulac's were Poe illustrations. Sandham I have not heard about, but I like the work. I like all the sets you posted; I will have to copy the ones I don't have, for my own offline Poe illustration folder. Thanks for posting so many! So appropriate for Halloween.

[Dark Muse]

Yes I love the work of Clarke and he did a very vast collection on Poe. And I find the Dore' Raven images to be quite interesting.

I looked but could not find any other Poe by Sandham or Tenniel

I really like the Dulacs as well

[Etienne]

I think it is a problem with the site from which you liked the pictures from, as the first one, and one farther down is an image of a girl with a moose and under it, it says artscraftsy.com

Yeah today I went to check and now I saw those reindeer pictures (I saw the real pictures before), I deleted the pictures which wouldn't link carefully.

[Janine]

Yes I love the work of Clarke and he did a very vast collection on Poe. And I find the Dore' Raven images to be quite interesting.

I looked but could not find any other Poe by Sandham or Tenniel

I really like the Dulacs as well

I loved all the Poe illustrations you posted, Dark Muse. They were all so 'Halloweeny', too. I had to go and change my profile page early this morning, since Halloween is over for this year. I went to my son's house last night and he had a great display - all Disney Halloween projected on his house, etc. Pirates of the C playing on a huge screen in his backyard, the light display on the side of the house, a graveyard out front and his car decaled like the one in "Cars".

I guess my momentum is broken now, because I am too tired out tonight to post any more photos in here or the other thread; I did look up some Shakespeare illustrations today and copied them. Tonight however I will try and copy the pictures you posted of Poe's work for my own offline files. I just love them - all the artists are good.

Yeah today I went to check and now I saw those reindeer pictures (I saw the real pictures before), I deleted the pictures which wouldn't link carefully.

Etienne, I knew you would sort it out and see what we were talking about. It is weird that attached to your other files. Glad you were able to fix it - looked strange with the Dulac inbetween, which no doubt was from a children's book anyway.

[Dark Muse]

Here are some King Arthur by Thomas Mackenzie