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Title: Dore at his best
Review: I have always admired Gustave Dore's work, both for its beauty and its emotion, but he (like Norman Rockwell) has always been a little ignored by the critics because he was a book illustrator(gasp!). Anyway, this Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy, in my opinion, is his best work. Why? Because of the range - from hell to heaven and everywhere in between. His imagination perfectly captures Dante's even greater imagination, and as the book progresses from Inferno to Purgaturio to Paradisio you get the impression of floating into the heavens. The translations, from Longfellow, are a little dated, but they work.
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