Gustave Doré (1832-1883 France) --- --- --- “It flung the blood into my head,” illustration for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge – 1875
Doré’s incomparable imagination befits Coleridge’s poem about a cursed sailor and his journey on a haunted ship to Antarctica, a voyage that he alone survives. The first depicts the Ancient Mariner amid the eerie aftermath of his encounter with a ghost ship crewed by Death. The second captures the moment when the curse is lifted and the ship lurches forward with unexpected force., knocking the sailor over and causing him to fall into a trance.
Gustave Doré (1832-1883 France) --- --- --- “It flung the blood into my head,” illustration for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge – 1875
Doré’s incomparable imagination befits Coleridge’s poem about a cursed sailor and his journey on a haunted ship to Antarctica, a voyage that he alone survives. The first depicts the Ancient Mariner amid the eerie aftermath of his encounter with a ghost ship crewed by Death. The second captures the moment when the curse is lifted and the ship lurches forward with unexpected force., knocking the sailor over and causing him to fall into a trance.