{"id":22084,"date":"2022-10-19T16:28:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T15:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=22084"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:48:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T10:48:51","slug":"edmund-dulacs-illustrated-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/10\/19\/edmund-dulacs-illustrated-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmund Dulac’s illustrated Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Haunted Palace.<\/em><\/p>\n

There’s always more Poe. Which means, in the context of these pages, there’s always another illustrated edition to be found. It’s good to finally discover a complete edition of The Bells, and Other Poems<\/em>; I’d seen a few of these paintings before\u2014Alone<\/em> was used on the cover of a biography of Poe by Wolf Mankowitz\u2014but the collection tends to be overshadowed by Dulac’s other books. The Internet Archive has had a scan available for several years but most of the colour plates are missing, picture theft being a common hazard for library books. These copies are from a more recent addition to Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Bells.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Bells<\/em> was published 12 years after W. Heath Robinson had produced his own illustrated edition of Poe poems<\/a> in 1900. The two books complement each other more than you might expect; all of Robinson’s illustrations are line drawings with an Art Nouveau quality that soon vanished from his work, and was long gone by the time he found a popular audience for his drawings of whimsical inventions. Dulac’s edition includes a few monochrome drawings but these are little more than spot illustrations scattered among the watercolour plates. Several of the paintings, especially the one for Israfel<\/em>, are Symbolist art as much as they’re illustration. This might seem inevitable given the Symbolist tendencies of Poe’s verse but not all illustrators manage to reflect these qualities.<\/p>\n

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The Bells.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Bells.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Annabel Lee.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Silence.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Raven.<\/em><\/p>\n

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To One in Paradise.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lenore.<\/em><\/p>\n

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To Helen.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The City in the Sea.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Sleeper.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ulalume.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Eldorado.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Conqueror Worm.<\/em><\/p>\n

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To the River.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Al Aaraaf.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Al Aaraaf.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bridal Ballad.<\/em><\/p>\n

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To Helen.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Valley of Unrest.<\/p>\n

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To \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014 (Mrs. Maris Louise Shew).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Israfel.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fairy-land.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dreamland.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alone.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Tamerlane.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Tamerlane.<\/em><\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The Purloined Eidolon<\/a>
\n\u2022 Martin van Ma\u00eble\u2019s illustrated Poe<\/a>
\n\u2022 Narraciones extraordinarias by Edgar Allan Poe<\/a>
\n\u2022 Fritz Eichenberg\u2019s illustrated Poe<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope<\/a>
\n\u2022 Hugo Steiner-Prag\u2019s illustrated Poe<\/a>
\n\u2022 Burt Shonberg\u2019s Poe paintings<\/a>
\n\u2022 Illustrating Poe #5: Among the others<\/a>
\n\u2022 Illustrating Poe #4: Wilfried S\u00e4tty<\/a>
\n\u2022 Illustrating Poe #3: Harry Clarke<\/a>
\n\u2022 Illustrating Poe #2: William Heath Robinson<\/a>
\n\u2022 Illustrating Poe #1: Aubrey Beardsley<\/a>
\n\u2022 Poe at 200<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Tell-Tale Heart from UPA<\/a>
\n\u2022 William Heath Robinson\u2019s illustrated Poe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Haunted Palace. There’s always more Poe. Which means, in the context of these pages, there’s always another illustrated edition to be found. It’s good to finally discover a complete edition of The Bells, and Other Poems; I’d seen a few of these paintings before\u2014Alone was used on the cover of a biography of Poe … Continue reading “Edmund Dulac’s illustrated Poe”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Edmund Dulac's illustrated Poe","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,22,48,45],"tags":[93,286,499,12488],"class_list":["post-22084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-horror","category-illustrators","category-symbolists","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-edmund-dulac","tag-william-heath-robinson","tag-wolf-mankowitz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5Kc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}