I would like to find pictures of Duessa, if at all
possible for my presentation in Cambridge next year.
My paper is an examination of animals and other
fantastical creatures. Unfortunately, where I live
(ironically, Washington, DC) copies of the Faerie
Queene illustrations are either missing or the
universities simply do not have them. If anyone could
send a copy to me, I would appreciate it.
--- Ellen Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'll mention a planned set of murals illustrating
> scenes from
> Book III of _The Faerie Queene_ for which Edward
> Burne-Jones drew some remarkable preliminary
> sketches. He is said to have planned for 4
> different subjects: 'The Chariot of Love', 'The
> Vision of Britomart', 'The Sirens' and a picture
> which sounds like it derives from Spenser's
> pastoral Book VI: 'a picture of the world --
> with Pan and Echo and sylvan gods, and a forest
> full of centaurs and a wild background of woods,
> mountains and rivers intermixed in his
> mind by Italian Renaissance paintings. A group
> of drawings for a "Masque of Cupid" were part of
> a very great show of his works which came to
> the Metropolitan Museum in New York City.
> These are studies in physical intimidation, fear,
> threatened inflictions of pain. To my mind the
> psychological-allegorical style and mood of
> intense strain, despair (very Bergman as in
> the 1952 film 'The Seventh Seal') recall
> Burne-Jones's
> illustrations of medieval love poems, 'The Romaunt
> of the Rose' though the pictures for the Spenser
> are heavily influenced by Italian idealisation
> of heroic bodies, while the ones for earlier poems
> show elongated figures (like those found in
> Burne-Jones's Arthurian pictures).
>
> I imagine these are probably mentioned in the
> articles
> by Norman Farmer and Richard Frushell cited
> by Prof Hamilton. I distinguish them because they
> are breath-taking in their nerve, may show the
> way discerning readers of the late Victorian
> period (one where Freudian ways of
> thought are beginning to make inroards), and
> are beautiful in themselves. They also curiously
> hark back to Carpaccio so show some striking
> evidence of a similar way of approaching Spenser
> which goes outside an immediate era. The
> catalogue published with at the time of the
> show contains reproductions: _Edward Burne-
> Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer_, published
> by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stephen
> Wildman and John Christian, ISBN
> 0-87099-859-5. I am interested in the history of
> book illustrations and illustrations in and of
> themselves. They have a lot to tell us about
> the way a particular text was perceived in a
> given era, and there are eras in which publishers
> were prepared to put sufficient money
> into the production of these to enable them
> to be of high quality because they
> helped to sell books.
>
> I suppose I should introduce myself. I posted a
> tiny
> query for a lucid book on Lacan about a week ago,
> and here thank the person who answered my
> request. I have recognized a few names from
> Renais-l
> and Ficino where I sometimes post. I have a very
> old love of Spenser's poetry (it goes back to my
> undergraduate days), and have published and still
> work on Renaissance poetry as a translator. I
> have put onto my website about 90 of Vittoria
> Colonna's poems with accompanying translations
> (by me); I have the whole set, but have not had
> the time to put them all up there. This is a
> goal or dream I hope to accomplish eventually.
> I am particularly interested in Renaissance sonnet
> sequences by women. If anyone wants to know
> more about me, there's more than you probably
> bargain for if you go to my website:
> http://mason.gmu.edu/~emoody. I have a neat
> review-essay of a recent book in Italian on women's
> letters from the 14th through 18th century on
> the part of my site called "Essays on Epistolary
> Literature"; I am at this point working on a
> book on later 18th century novels which I have
> agreed with my publisher to call _Jane Austen
> and Bath_ as the first name sells anything and
> the second conjures up alluring and pleasant
> pictures in readers' minds.
>
> Cheers to all,
> Ellen Moody
>
> -----
> "She regained the street -- happy in this, that
> though
> much had been forced on her against her will, though
> she had in fact heard the whole substance of Jane
> Fairfax's letter, she had been able to escape the
> letter itself."
> ---Jane Austen, _Emma_
>
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