Research Catalog

Title

Paradise lost : the poem and its illustrators / Robert Woof, Howard J.M. Hanley, Stephen Hebron.

Author

Woof, Robert.

Publication

Grasmere : The Wordsworth Trust, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum.
• Hanley, H. J. M. (Howard J. M.)
• Hebron, Stephen
• Wordsworth Trust.

Description

viii, 226 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

This exhibition at the Wordsworth Trust, and this catalogue, concentrates first on the imaginations of artists, the painters, drawers and engravers who were challenged to make some equivalent in visual form to Milton's great poetry, and the way that it excited them as readers. -- Book Jacket.

Subject

• Milton, John, 1608-1674. > Exhibitions
• Milton, John, 1608-1674. > Illustrations > Exhibitions

Note

• Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere, 1st July - 31 October, 2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-221) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Sponsor's preface -- Foreword -- Seeing Milton's voice / Howard J.M. Hanley -- Milton and the romantics / Robert Woof -- Catalogue. Milton and Paradise Lost -- The first illustrators -- The eighteenth century -- William Blake -- The nineteenth century -- The twentieth century -- Appendix: the Reverend Joseph Thomas.

ISBN

1870787943 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library