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Evelyn Waugh was an illustrator. Poe was a deft portraitist. Hermann Hesse was a skilled painter, as was Strindberg. Emily and Charlotte Bronte drew, as did Goethe, Dostoevsky, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Ruskin, Dos Passos, Blake, Pushkin...
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Dream vision (Geoffrey Chaucer): And in my slepe I mette, as I lay, How African, right in that selfe aray That Scipioun him saw before that tyde Was comen, and stood right at my beddes syde Poetic vision (Blake): And by came an angel, who had a bright key, And he opened the coffins, and set them all free Narcotic vision (Thomas De Quincey): A theatre seemed suddenly opened and lighted up within my brain, which presented nightly spectacles o..
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