Art, Symbol & Imagination
Bridal Ballad: The Bride above the Blue Valley
A pale-gowned woman sits alone in an ornate chair beside dark rock formations. Blue hills and a distant landscape extend beyond her still figure. The accompanying poem gives the bride a troubled happiness shadowed by the memory of a dead lover.
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Edmund Dulac. "Bridal Ballad: The Bride above the Blue Valley" [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 135. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0417-0125
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Edmund Dulac. Bridal Ballad: The Bride above the Blue Valley. The Bells and Other Poems. Scan leaf 135. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0417-0125