Dozens of the renowned artist's celestial beings, as created for such great literary works as the Bible, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Milton's classic, Paradise Lost. 75 black-and-white illustrations.

Great 19th-century illustrator's last major achievement: 208 brooding, surreal illustrations of magnificent, influential Renaissance epic poem. Jousting knights, damsels in distress, and grotesque monsters come to life under Doré's exuberant pen style.

Every major poet or philosopher develops their own distinctive semantic field around those terms which matter most to them, or which contribute most profoundly to the imagined world of a particular work. This book explores the specific meanings which Milton develops around key words in Paradise Lost. Some of these are theological or philosophical terms (e.g. 'evil', 'grace', 'reason'); others are words which shape the imagined world of the poem (e.g. 'dark', 'fall', 'within'); yet others are small words or even prefixes which subtly move the argument in new directions (e.g. 'if', 'not', 're-'). Milton seems to expect his readers to be alert to the special semantic field which he creates around such words, often by infusing them with biblical and literary connotations, and activating their etymological roots; alert also to the patterns created by the repetitions of such words, and particularly to their diverse use (and often their blatant misuse) by different characters. To understand the migrations and malleability of key words is part of the education of Milton's reader.

Plunge your mind into the epic depths of Preflood Earth lore. A long lost place where fantasy, history, and myth meets truth in a cascade of high adventure, fused in a hurricane of action during humanity's ancient ancestry. Relive lost legends concerning the seduction of women by the angelic order of the Watchers. These procreations birthed defiled hybrid offspring of the Nephilim, Giants, Terrors, and Monsters of ancient primethology. Wretched creatures that would plunge our planet into wars, destruction, utter abomination, and death.Witness the struggle of remnants of men, women, and creatures who refused to surrender their freedom and bloodlines to the Nephilim's degradation and enslavement that gave birth to accursed descendants. Travel with Human folk as they flee from the old eastern continent through the torments and tempests of the Great Sea until they finally discover the western lands of Kelahdünia and Varmabulretz. There, they dwelt for 5,000 to 10,000 years, crafting the foundation of the greatest stories ever told. Stories of titanic clashes of heroes, villains, good, evil, and wars between men, women, and creatures. The stories that seemed never-ending until the great doom befell the ancient ones and drowned the existence of all.The journey to Preflood Earth begins with Dor Vahdor Volume I: Creation, Angels, War. The account of the rise and fall of the first creation, the Light-Bringer, and The Great War in Heaven. The Great War that begot all wars, and stained the seven realms with blood and clashes of combat across its kozmic firmament. A Great War that no mortal mind could even begin to fathom that is, until now.Dor Vahdor is for everyone to experience. Pre-flood Earth is for humankind to discover. Open your mind and imagination; then, set your course for the third star to the right that lies beyond the son of morning and nothing that you have ever read before. The Primethology Epic of Spear and Spirit high fantasy and science fiction, which travel up from Earth's surly bonds unto the Kozmic realms of the Highest.