SourceBridge from Hell to the World
The road made by Sin and Death across the abyss after the human fall.
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Dante’s Dark Wood
The forest where the traveller discovers that he has left the direct path.
Dante, Inferno
Dante’s Earthly Paradise
The fragrant forest at the mountain’s summit where memory is renewed.
Dante, Purgatory and Paradise
SourceDante’s Mountain of Purgatory
The mountain where purified desire makes ascent possible.
Dante, Purgatory and Paradise
Eden in Paradise Lost
The planted garden whose abundance becomes the setting for human intimacy and concealed danger.
John Milton, Paradise LostEunoe
The companion stream that restores the memory of good.
Dante, Purgatory and Paradise
SourceFaust’s study
The crowded Gothic room from which the scholar seeks escape.
Goethe’s Faust, Part One
Golgonooza in Blake's Jerusalem
A fourfold city built by Los in London from pity, affection and forgiveness.
William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion; retained monochrome facsimile
Lethe in Dante’s Garden
The stream that removes remembrance of offence.
Dante, Purgatory and Paradise
Lilliput in Gulliver's Travels
A miniature kingdom whose carefully measured bodies, provisions and machinery make Gulliver an immense but manageable prisoner.
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels into Lilliput and Brobdingnag; illustrated by Jean de Bosschère, Dodd, Mead / William Heinemann, undated title page
SourceLondon in “A Tale of London”
The imagined, jewel-filled London described to a Sultan in the opening tale of Lord Dunsany’s The Last Book of Wonder.
Lord Dunsany, The Last Book of Wonder; Boston: John W. Luce & Company, undated illustrated edition with 1916 copyright statement
Merimna in “The Sword of Welleran”
The dreamed city whose monuments and memories conceal its vulnerability in Lord Dunsany’s title story.
Lord Dunsany, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories; London: George Allen & Sons, 1908 title pageSourceThe Gate of Purgatory
The guarded threshold opened by two different keys.
Dante, Purgatory and Paradise
The Land in The City Curious
An edible country whose inviting materials and unsettling threshold transform Smaly and Redy’s search in Bosschère’s illustrated fantasy.
Jean de Bosschère, The City Curious, retold in English by F. Tennyson Jesse; New York and London, 1920 title page
The Land Unknown in Thel
The sorrowful realm of graves that Thel briefly enters through the eternal gates.
William Blake’s illuminated poetry
The Seven-Walled Castle of Limbo
The bright enclosure where Dante encounters the honoured figures of antiquity.
Dante, Inferno
The Vales of Har
The flower-filled home from which Thel questions passing life and to which she returns after her descent.
William Blake’s illuminated poetrySourceThe Witches’ Kitchen
The supernatural household where the companions seek a change in Faust.
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