(…) Naturally, this is not a general collection of legendary ballads, and the slightly hackneyed themes of love and romance, so well known to us all, have not been touched upon in a volume intended only to deal with the weird and wonderful. Elves and fairies, demons and witches run riot through these pages and dance through the pictures. Here we have a revel of the bizarre, the whimsical, the extraordinary. Ballads of this type have a peculiar flavour of their own, which can be neither defined nor imitated, and they are, therefore, easily separable from the others.
(…) Certainly I shall be astounded if these wonderful drawings for „Ballads Wierd and Wonderful” are not recognised as a triumph of modern art. Apart from their technique they reflect with marvellous fidelity the spirit of the ballads, the air of poetical mistery, the combination of the natural and the supernatural, the peculiar haunting beauty of the verses themselves.
- Autor: autor nieznany
- Kategoria: poezja
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 9781333685171
- Data wydania: 2018-01-01
- Liczba stron: 102
- Ocena: 0,0
- Wydawnictwo: Forgotten Books
