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The Many Men so Beautiful: Gustave Doré’s Illustrations to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Many Men so Beautiful: Gustave Doré’s Illustrations to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Grant F. Scott The Many Men so Beautiful: Gustave Keywords: Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge, Doré, illustrations, homoeroticism, Géricault I: Gustave Doré’s illustrations to Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1876) have been widely known since their initial publication in London. They appeared the following year in the United States, where they passed rapidly through nine editions and were then reprinted (and pirated) many times. During the 1880s the folio edition was published in France, Germany, Italy and Russia. After a gap of more than half a century when Doré fell out of fashion, interest in his art once again revived in the 1960s, which saw the publication of a Time-Life version of the original with an introduction by Anthony Burgess. In 1970, Dover published an inexpensive paperback ‘facsimile’ of the work, which has remained in print ever since.1 More recently, individual reproductions of Doré’s images have accompanied new editions of Coleridge’s poems, anthologies of literature, books about angels and religious history, and even manuals devoted to sailboat maintenance. They have been enlarged into posters and adapted for film and dance performances.2 Of the numerous illustrations of Coleridge’s poem by other artists, Doré’s are by far http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Romanticism Edinburgh University Press

The Many Men so Beautiful: Gustave Doré’s Illustrations to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Scott, Grant F
Romanticism , Volume 16 (1): 1 – Apr 1, 2010
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Edinburgh University Press
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© Edinburgh University Press 2010
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Literary Studies
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1354-991X
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1750-0192
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10.3366/E1354991X1000084X
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Grant F. Scott The Many Men so Beautiful: Gustave Keywords: Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge, Doré, illustrations, homoeroticism, Géricault I: Gustave Doré’s illustrations to Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1876) have been widely known since their initial publication in London. They appeared the following year in the United States, where they passed rapidly through nine editions and were then reprinted (and pirated) many times. During the 1880s the folio edition was published in France, Germany, Italy and Russia. After a gap of more than half a century when Doré fell out of fashion, interest in his art once again revived in the 1960s, which saw the publication of a Time-Life version of the original with an introduction by Anthony Burgess. In 1970, Dover published an inexpensive paperback ‘facsimile’ of the work, which has remained in print ever since.1 More recently, individual reproductions of Doré’s images have accompanied new editions of Coleridge’s poems, anthologies of literature, books about angels and religious history, and even manuals devoted to sailboat maintenance. They have been enlarged into posters and adapted for film and dance performances.2 Of the numerous illustrations of Coleridge’s poem by other artists, Doré’s are by far

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