Edmund Dulac and Gustave Doré depict Edgar Allan Poe’s renowned poem, The Raven, in two very different lights. Edmund Dulac’s adaptation of the scene was completed in 1912, when, as a French citizen, he was surrounded by the influence of World War I. Juxtapose this is Gustave Doré, also a French artist, who composed a collection of images for The Raven in the early 1880s at the time of the Victorian Era. Though these pieces may show common themes and aspects, their differences are easily realized and explored. Edmund Dulac, born Edmond Dulac in 1882 in Toulouse, France, was a French-born, British naturalized artist and illustrator in what is called the Golden Age of Illustration. His works span both World War I and World War II, and he died
