{"id":8152,"date":"2010-10-26T02:18:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T01:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=8152"},"modified":"2010-10-26T02:18:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T01:18:48","slug":"illustrating-poe-2-william-heath-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/26\/illustrating-poe-2-william-heath-robinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustrating Poe #2: William Heath Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Some of these drawings have been featured here before but they’re always worth seeing again. One of the problems for the early illustrators of Poe was a lack of sympathy among many of them for the author’s doom-laden Romanticism. It’s a shame that Aubrey Beardsley didn’t try illustrating some of the poems, as William Heath Robinson does here, Poe’s verse is significantly lighter in atmosphere than his stories.<\/p>\n

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

This collection is from 1900 and I much prefer this style of Robinson’s to the later comic inventions which made him a household name. The complete book can be found at the Internet Archive<\/a>. For a very different interpretation of Poe’s poems, Golden Age Comic Book Stories just posted the 1912 Edmund Dulac edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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A Valentine.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A Valentine.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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A Dream within a Dream.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

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

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Evening Star.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

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The Poetic Principle.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Illustrating Poe #1: Aubrey Beardsley<\/a>
\n\u2022 Poe at 200<\/a>
\n\u2022 William Heath Robinson\u2019s Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Raven. Some of these drawings have been featured here before but they’re always worth seeing again. One of the problems for the early illustrators of Poe was a lack of sympathy among many of them for the author’s doom-laden Romanticism. It’s a shame that Aubrey Beardsley didn’t try illustrating some of the poems, as … Continue reading “Illustrating Poe #2: William Heath Robinson”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,30,42,48],"tags":[94,93,286,1213,499],"class_list":["post-8152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-aubrey-beardsley","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-edmund-dulac","tag-golden-age-comic-book-stories","tag-william-heath-robinson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-27u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152","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=8152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}