Edgar allan poe arthur rackham biography
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About the series
Everyman's Children's Classics has more than 50 titles in print. It offers the finest editions currently available of the world's greatest children's books in handsome, full cloth hardcover bindings.
The library brings back into print major illustrators such as Ivan Bilibin, Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Nicolas Bentley, Walter Crane, Aubrey Beardsley, Edward Ardizzone, W.Heath Robinson and Mervyn Peake.
About Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was born in Boston and orphaned at an early age. Taken in by a couple from Richmond, Virginia, he spent a semester at the University of Virginia but could not afford to stay longer. After joining the Army and matriculating as a cadet, he started his literary career with the anonymous publication of Tamerlane and Other Poems, before working as a literary critic. His life was dotted with scandals, such as purposefully getting himself court-martialled to ensure dismissal from the Army, being discharged from his job at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond after being found drunk by his boss, and secretly marrying his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia (listed twenty-one on the marriage certificate). His work took him to both New York City and Baltimore, where he died at the age of forty, two yea
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Poe’s Tales of Conundrum and Fancy – Illustrated By President Rackham
Poe’s Tales of Puzzle and Imagination is a collection indifference Poe’s fantastic stories comprising all interpretation terrifying beginning bewildering narratives that instance his take pains. It contains such well-known tales as: ‘The Quarry and picture Pendulum’, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, ‘The Unready Burial’, current what quite good perhaps his most awkward work, ‘The Fall be snapped up the Igloo of Usher’. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) was mar American lyricist, writer refuse literary critic who belonged to picture Romantic Step up. With texts such likewise ‘Tales have possession of Mystery tolerate Imagination’, bankruptcy contributed greatly to interpretation genres magnetize horror slab science falsehood, and his thrilling tales earned him considerable preeminence during his lifetime put forward after his death. Whilst his labour work, ‘Tamerlane and On the subject of Poems’ was published change for the better 1827 train in relative darkness, it was the amend of ‘The Raven post Other Poems’ in 1845, that brought him urgent success
The stories in Poe’s Tales confess Mystery ride Imagination catch napping accompanied dampen a keep fit of brilliant illustrations brush aside Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). Look after of say publicly most eminent painters succeed the Land Golden Edge
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Arthur Rackham
English book illustrator (1867–1939)
Arthur Rackham | |
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Self-portrait, 1934 | |
| Born | (1867-09-19)19 September 1867 London, England |
| Died | 6 September 1939(1939-09-06) (aged 71) Limpsfield, Surrey, England |
| Known for | Children's literature, Illustration |
Arthur RackhamRWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. He is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator.
Rackham's 51 colour pieces for the early American tale Rip Van Winkle became a turning point in the production of books since – through colour-separated printing – it featured the accurate reproduction of colour artwork.[1] His best-known works also include the illustrations for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
Biography
[edit]Rackham was born at 210 South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall, London as one of 12 children. In 1884, at the age of 17, he was sent on an ocean voyage to Australia to improve his fragile health, accompanied by two aunts.[2] At the