Gustave Dore's magnificent engravings for *The Rime of the Ancient Mariner* are among the later works of the great French illustrator. The intensely evocative poem provided DorΓ© with the long-awaited opportunity to convey limitless space on a gigantic scale, and he exploited the poem's fantastic ran
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
- Year
- 2012-8-7
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
DorΓ©'s engravings for The Rime are considered by many to be his greatest work. The terrifying space of the open sea, the storms and whirlpools of an unknown ocean, the hot equatorial seas swarming with monsters, the ice of Antarctica, more - are all rendered in a powerful manner. Full text and 38 plates.
Argument
How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country.
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