Gustave Doré’s Macabre Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (1884)

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One of many busiest, most in-demand artists of the nineteenth cen­tu­ry, Gus­tave Doré made his identify illus­trat­ing works by such authors as Rabelais, Balzac, Mil­ton, and Dante. Within the 1860s, he cre­at­ed one of the crucial mem­o­rable and pop­u­lar illus­trat­ed edi­tions of Cer­vantes’ Don Quixote, whereas on the similar time com­plet­ing a set of engrav­ings…

Hear Edgar Allan Poe Tales Learn by Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley, Christopher Walken, Marianne Trustworthy & Extra

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In 1849, a lit­tle over 175 years in the past, Edgar Allan Poe was discovered lifeless in a Bal­ti­extra intestine­ter beneath mys­te­ri­ous cir­cum­stances very like­ly relat­ed to vio­lent elec­tion fraud. It was an igno­min­ious finish to a life marked by onerous­ship, alco­holism, and loss. After strug­gling for years as the primary Amer­i­can author to try…