“Destruction of Leviathan” an 1865 engraving by Gustave Doré for Paradise Lost

Leviathan is a mythical sea creature that appears in the Bible, emblematic of awesome strength. It’s described as the meanest and the biggest creature in the sea and a humbler of the Proud. Leviathan as a dragon who lives over the Sources of the Deep and who will be served up to the righteous at the end of time.

Maritime Monday for January 30, 2012; This is Leviathan

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Andromeda - Gustave Doré, 1869

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Like a pair of migratory swans, we traversed the solitary waves.

Gustave Doré, from Atala, by François-René de Chateaubriand, New York, 1889.

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trixietreats:

Sea, sex and fear; illustration by Gustave Doré

• Plate 4: The Ship Fled the Storm

THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

    Type of work: Poem
    Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
    Illustrations by Gustave Doré
    Time of plot: Late medieval period
    Locale: A voyage around the Horn into the Pacific and then home to England
    First published: 1798

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msbehavoyeur:

“The dolphin thought it was saving a sailor, but was dismayed to find it was carrying a chattering fool.”

The Singe et le Dauphin ~ Gustave Doré  1867  via

[The Monkey and the Dolphin]  From Doré’s Illustrations for the Fables of La Fontaine

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrated by Gustave Doré
Plate 31: The Whirl

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.

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