Koyotetracker - Searching For William Blake

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904) Moorish Bath, The Odalisque, 1870 Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Odalisque by Georg Pauli (1881)

Our Daily Bread — Rene Magritte

Our Daily Bread, 1942 by Rene Magritte (1898-1967)

Literary history that happened on 23 October

Eldorado

Gaily bedight,

A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,

Had journeyed long,

Singing a song,

In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old—

This knight so bold—

And o'er his heart a shadow

Fell as he found

No spot of ground

That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength

Failed him at length,

He met a pilgrim shadow—

"Shadow," said he,

"Where can it be—

This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains

Of the Moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,

Ride, boldly ride,"

The shade replied—

"If you seek for Eldorado!"

Edward Allen Poe

“Seasons, four elements and human characters”, Isidore of Seville De natura rerum, undated ca. Middle Ages via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain

Dante Running from the Three Beasts, William Blake, between 1824 and 1827

Moonlight by Alphonse Mucha (1902)

Morning Star by Alphonse Mucha (1902)