Mermaids (Magical Beings)
Editorial Reviews Book Description The mermaid is appealing both as a near-human and as a mystery. She looks up at our world, frequently falling in love with a human, tragically yearning for a world she cannot have. We are drawn to mermaids because they, who are in so many ways like us, inhabit that vast kingdom beneath the sea which is both attractive and dangerous.
Our volume is a compilation of succinct and insightful extracts from the literature of mermaids, and also some of our favorite pictures of mermaids. The pictures are by a variety of painters (including Waterhouse, Bocklin, and Burne-Jones) and book illustrators (including Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, and W. Heath Robinson). From the Inside Flap This is a book created to be given. At its center is a peom bt Charles Snell which was written for, and Published in, 1914 as a small gift book. In it the giver, in a series of concrete images, extends the recipient many good wishes.
In our volume, Snell's words are presented within borders made by Daniel Maclise for a book entitles Moore's Irish Melodies, published in 1846.
We have selected images to accompany each wish. These are made by a great variety of painters and illustrators, and range over more than 150 years.
This Is My Wish for You is in the tradition of ancient blessings, in which one tries, through the power of language, to throw a mantle of protection and beneficence over the receiver. Mermaids (Magical Beings)
Mermaids (Magical Beings),Elizabeth Ratisseau,Laughing Elephant,188321114X,Art,Folklore & Mythology - Folklore,General,Mermaids,Mermaids in art,Sociology
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