Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Cave of Spleen
A fantastic company gathers among curling plant-like forms, vessels and exaggerated faces. Dense fine ornament nearly dissolves the distinction between bodies and surroundings. The source identifies The Cave of Spleen in the fourth canto, where Pope gives melancholy and ill temper an extravagant imagined realm.
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Aubrey Beardsley. "The Cave of Spleen" [editorial title]. In The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope; illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896; five cantos with nine drawings by Aubrey Beardsley., 1896, Leonard Smithers. Source scan leaf 57. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0263-0045
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Aubrey Beardsley. The Cave of Spleen. The Rape of the Lock. Scan leaf 57. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0263-0045