Milton's Paradise Lost

 

Illustrated by Gustave Doré

 

 

 

Paradise Lost is the work of the 17th Century English poet, polemicist and civil servant,

John Milton (1608-1674). Pollard and Moss (New York) published a volume of Milton's

work illustrated by Gustave Doré in 1887.

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Cover for ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton and illustrated by Gustave Dore

 

Above, we show an antique example

(circa 1887) of Milton's Paradise Lost

as illustrated by Gustave Doré

Paradise Lost ostensibly tells the Judeo-Christian tale of the Fall, including: Satan's failed assault on the Heavenly throne and his subsequent fate and that of his minions; the temptation of Adam and Eve and the banishment; Noah's Ark and the Flood; and Moses entering a new Covenant with God. However, the tale as described by Milton also serves as a metaphor for his exploration of the path and fate of the Puritan and Parliamentary causes in 17th Century England.

 

Milton himself was a prominent civil servant within the Commonwealth established by

Oliver Cromwell prior to the restitution of the Stuart Monarchy in 1660.

 

Doré's inspirational illustrations capture all aspects of Milton's work, complementing the author's sentiment and pathos to magnificent effect.
 

 

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Greeting Card sample showing an illustration from ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton and illustrated by Gustave Dore

For connoisseurs of Doré's work, we have prepared sets of 50 Greeting Cards displaying each of his illustrations for Milton's Paradise Lost and on the left, we show an example of how these Greeting Cards appear.

 

 

 

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When presented on Greeting Cards, these images are prepared as tipped-on plates - in hommage to the hand-crafted

approach typical of prestige illustrated publications produced in the early decades of the 20th Century. Each card is

hand-finished and the images are presented on White card stock with an accompanying envelope. On the rear of each

card we also present some information about this great work and each individual illustration. We have left the interior

of the cards blank so that you may write your own personal message.

 

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Doré's designs for Milton's Paradise Lost

 

 

Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book I, lines 44, 45 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book I, lines 221, 222 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book I, line 331 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book I, lines 344, 345 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton

Him the Almighty Power

Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky.

Book I., lines 44, 45.

 

 

Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool

His mighty stature.

Book I., lines 221, 222.

They heard and were abashed,

and up they sprung.

Book I., line 331.

So numberless were those bad Angels seen,

Hovering on wing, under the cope of Hell.

Book I., lines 344, 345.

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Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book I, lines 757-759 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book II, lines 1, 2 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book II, line 628 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book II, lines 648, 649 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton

Their summons called

From every band and squared regiment,

By place or choice the worthiest.

Book I., lines 757-759.

 

 

High on a throne of royal state, which far

Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind.

Book II., lines 1, 2.

Gorgons, Hydras, and Chimeras dire.

Book II., line 628.

Before the gates there sat

On either side a formidable shape.

Book II., lines 648, 649.

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Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book II, lines 949, 950 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book III, lines 347-349 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book III, lines 473, 474 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book III, lines 739, 741 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton

With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way,

And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.

Book II., lines 949, 950.

Heaven rung

With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled

The eternal regions.

Book III., lines 347-349.

 

 

And many more too long,

Embryos, and idiots, eremites, and friars.

Book III., lines 473, 474.

Towards the coast of Earth beneath,

Down from the ecliptic, sped with hoped success,

Throws his steep flight in many an aëry wheel.

Book III., lines 739-741.

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Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book IV, lines 73, 74 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book IV, lines 172, 173 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book IV, lines 247 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book IV, lines 335, 336 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton

Me miserable! which way shall I fly

Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?

Book IV., lines 73, 74.

 Now to the ascent of that steep savage hill

Satan hath journey'd on, pensive and slow.

Book IV., lines 172, 173.

 

 

A happy rural seat of various view.

Book IV., line 247.

The savoury pulp they chew, and in the rind,

Still as they thirsted, scoop the brimming stream.

Book IV., lines 335, 336.

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Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book IV, lines 589, 590 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book IV, lines 798, 799 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book IV, lines 1014, 1015 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book V, lines 12, 13 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton

So promised he; and Uriel to his charge

Returned.

Book IV., lines 589, 590.

These to the bower direct

In search of whom they sought.

Book IV., lines 798, 799.

 

 

No more; but fled

Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.

Book IV., lines 1014, 1015.

Leaning, half raised, with looks of cordial love,

Hung over her enamoured.

Book V., lines 12, 13.

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Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book V, lines 309, 310 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book V, lines 468, 470 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book VI, line 188 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book VI, lines 207-209 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton

Eastward among those trees, what glorious shape

Comes this way moving?

Book V., lines 309, 310.

To whom the wingčd Hierarch replied:

O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom

All things proceed.

Book V., lines 468-470.

 

 

This greeting on thy impious crest receive.

Book VI., line 188.

Now storming fury rose,

And clamor, such as heard in heaven till now

Was never.

Book VI., lines 207-209.

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Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book VI, lines 327, 328 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book VI, line 406 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book VI, lines 410-412 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book VI, line 871 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton

Then Satan first knew pain,

And writhed him to and fro.

Book VI., lines 327, 328.

Now Night her course began.

Book VI., line 406.

On the foughten field

Michael and his angels, prevalent

Encamping, placed in guard their watches round.

Book VI., lines 410-412.

 

 

Nine days they fell.

Book VI., line 871.

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Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book VI, lines 874, 875 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book VII, lines 298, 299 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book VII, lines 387-389 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book VII, lines 415, 416 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton

Hell at last,

Yawning, received them whole.

Book VI., lines 874, 875.

Wave rolling after wave, where way they found;

If steep, with torrent rapture.

Book VII., lines 298, 299.

And God said: Let the waters generate

Reptile with spawn abundant, living soul;

And let fowl fly above the earth.

Book VII., lines 387-389.

 

 

And seems a moving land; and at his gills

Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.

Book VII., lines 415, 416.

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Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book VII, lines 417, 418 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book VII, lines 581, 582 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book VIII, lines 652, 653 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book IX, lines 74, 75 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton

Meanwhile the tepid caves, and fens, and shores,

Their brood as numerous hatch.

Book VII., lines 417, 418.

And now on earth the seventh

Evening arose in Eden.

Book VII., lines 581, 582.

 

 

So parted they: the Angel up to heaven

From the thick shade, and Adam to his bower.

Book VIII., lines 652, 653.

In with the river sunk, and with it rose,

Satan.

Book IX., lines 74, 75.

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Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book IX, lines 99, 100 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book IX, lines 182, 183 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book IX, lines 434, 435 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book IX, lines 784, 785 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton

Oh Earth, how like to Heaven, if not preferred

More justly.

Book IX., lines 99, 100.

Him, fast sleeping, soon he found

In labyrinth of many a round, self-rolled.

Book IX., lines 182, 183.

Nearer he drew, and many a walk traversed

Of stateliest covert, cedar, pine, or palm.

Book IX., lines 434, 435.

 

 

Back to the thicket slunk

The guilty serpent.

Book IX., lines 784, 785.

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Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book IX, lines 1121-1123 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book X, lines 99-101 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book X, lines 439-441 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book X, lines 521-523 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton

Nor only tears

Rained at their eyes, but high winds worse within

Began to rise

Book IX., lines 1121-1123.

They heard,

And from his presence hid themselves among

The thickest trees.

Book X., lines 99-101.

And now expecting

Each hour their great adventurer, from the search

Of foreign worlds.

Book X., lines 439-441.

 

 

Dreadful was the din

Of hissing through the hall, thick swarming now

With complicated monsters, head and tail.

Book X., lines 521-523.

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Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book X, line 610 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book XI, lines 208-210 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book XI, line 729 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book XI, lines 747-749 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton

This said, they both betook them several ways.

Book X., line 610.

The heavenly bands

Down from a sky of jasper lighted now

In Paradise.

Book XI., lines 208-210.

 

 

Began to build a vessel of huge bulk.

Book XI., line 729.

 

All dwellings else

Flood overwhelmed, and them with all their pomp,

Deep under water rolled.

Book XI., lines 747-749.

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Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book XII, lines 236-238 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton Gustave Dore - Illustration for Book XII, line 645 of ''Paradise Lost'' (1887), written by John Milton    

They beseech

That Moses might report to them his will,

And terror cease.

Book XII., lines 236-238.

 

 

Some natural tears they dropt, but wiped them soon.

Book XII., line 645.

    

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