Art, Symbol & Imagination
The City in the Sea
Pale towers and narrow openings rise from an intricately patterned shore. Heavy curved lines turn the surrounding water into a dark moving field. The design accompanies Poe’s isolated city under the rule of Death, joining the poem’s architecture with its still and ominous sea.
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Edmund Dulac. "The City in the Sea" [editorial title]. In The Bells and Other Poems, Edgar Allan Poe; illustrated by Edmund Dulac. New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton; undated title; illustrations by Edmund Dulac., undated edition, Hodder and Stoughton. Source scan leaf 73. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0417-0063
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Edmund Dulac. The City in the Sea. The Bells and Other Poems. Scan leaf 73. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0417-0063