Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Fallen Host Answers Satan
The leader’s raised gesture gathers a dispersed company into an answering host. Spears and wings repeat through the image, carrying the eye from the foreground figure towards the multitude behind him. The accompanying verse describes the rebels hearing Satan and springing up in shame. Doré renders that response as an organised movement rather than a collection of isolated bodies. The plate belongs to the rebuilding of command after defeat, when a fallen army begins to recover its capacity for concerted action.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Fallen Host Answers Satan" [editorial title]. In Paradise Lost: Illustrated by Gustave Doré, John Milton; illustrated by Gustave Doré; edited by Henry C. Walsh. Undated John W. Lovell Company edition; exact publication year unverified, undated edition, John W. Lovell Company. Source scan leaf 25. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/milton-dore-24
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Full source plate, printed verse caption and surrounding poem reviewed. Editorial title; original scan tonality retained. Over-dark plates excluded.
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Gustave Doré (design). The Fallen Host Answers Satan. Paradise Lost: Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Scan leaf 25. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/milton-dore-24