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Explore how literature and art intertwine through iconic works such as 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Pilgrim’s Progress,' and 'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.' Discover the creative interpretations and visual representations in this insightful lecture.
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Gresham Lecture, October 2010 Words and Pictures: Mixed Encounters
‘The Dreamer’ Robert White’s portrait of Bunyan, the frontispiece to The Pilgrim’s Progress, 1679
William Blake, ‘Satan summoning his Legions’, and ‘The Temptation of Eve 1808
Blake, ‘Christian at the Wicket Gate’ and ‘Christian and Appolyon’, 1824
William HogarthFrontispiece to The Works of Henry Fielding, 1762
John Tenniel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1865 and 1871
Phiz, ‘ Mr Winkle’s situation when the door “blew to”’, for Pickwick Papers, 1836
Phiz, ‘Mr Flintwinch has a bad attack of irritability’, Little Dorrit, 1855-7
Mervyn Peake, ‘The Albatross,’ from Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1943