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 described as a gigantic arabesque, imbued with a passion and pathos not elsewhere attempted in this branch of art.

The subject of Milton, from which one of our illustrations is selected,

Design from "Milton" By W. Blake.

is, in Mr. Swinburne's words, the incarnation and descent into earth and hell of Milton, who represents redemption by inspiration. Something similar, as we have seen, is the idea of Blake's fine mystical book, Tiriel,