Something uncommonly beautiful takes place when a great artist brings a great writer’s words to life. Having previously illustrated works by such literary titans as Dante, Balzac, Milton, Coleridge, Tennyson, and Lord Byron, Gustave Doré created a series of stark, beautifully haunting steel-plate engravings for a special edition of "The Raven." Doré died shortly after completing the illustrations, at the age of fifty-one, and this exquisite edition was posthumously published in 1884.
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