Blake's Visionary Universe
Author: John B. Beer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13:
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William Blake Vs the World
Author: John Higgs
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2022-05-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781474614368
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Fascinating' The Times 'Blakeian in its singularity' New Statesman 'A wonderful adventure' Irish Times 'Rich, complex and original' Tom Holland 'A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction' Times Literary Supplement Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. In this radical new biography, we return to a world of riots, revolutions and radicals, discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics and comparative religion to look afresh at Blake's life and work - and, crucially, his mind. Taking the reader on wild detours into unfamiliar territory, John Higgs places the bewildering eccentricities of a most singular artist into context and shows us how Blake can help us better understand ourselves.
William Blake
Author: Edina Adam
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1606066420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA richly illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the visionary artist William Blake. William Blake (1757–1827) is a universal artist—an inspiration to musicians, poets, performers, and visual artists worldwide. By combining his poetry and images on the page through radical printing techniques, Blake created some of the most striking and enduring images in art. His personal struggles in a period of political terror and oppression; creativity, inventiveness, and technical innovation; and vision and political commitment keep his work relevant today. Featuring over 130 color images, this accessible yet comprehensive introduction to Blake’s achievements and ambition includes discussions of his legacy in America; relationship to the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque artists who preceded him; visionary imagination; and unparalleled skill as a printmaker.
William Blake Now
Author: John Higgs
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2019-09-05
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 1474614345
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'If a thing loves, it is infinite' William Blake A short, impassioned argument for why the visionary artist William Blake is important in the twenty-first century The visionary poet and painter William Blake is a constant presence throughout contemporary culture - from videogames to novels, from sporting events to political rallies and from horror films to designer fashion. Although he died nearly 200 years ago, something about his work continues to haunt the twenty-first century. What is it about Blake that has so endured? In this illuminating essay, John Higgs takes us on a whirlwind tour to prove that far from being the mere New Age counterculture figure that many assume him to be, Blake is now more relevant than ever.
Europe A Prophecy (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)
Author: William Blake
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2013-08-20
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 8074844102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis carefully crafted ebook: "Europe A Prophecy (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Blake's illuminated books, produced from 1783-1795, are remarkable examples of complex syntheses: of form - poetry and painting; and of subject - the real with the mythical. Blake created his own mythological creations to populate his poems and paintings: concepts and ideas became personified into universal representations. He used these mythological characters to explain and act out his singular view of history. Blake divided the nature of man into four personified elements: "Los, the imagination and eventual source of redemption; Urizen, the reason and vengeful Jehovah of the Old Testament as opposed to the merciful Christ of the New; Luvah, the senses; and Tharmas, the emotions". Each of these characters has an emanation, or female "offshoot", who is commonly a negative character attempting to dominate her male counterpart. "William Blake (1757 – 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.
The Book of Urizen
Author: William Blake
Publisher:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 0
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Author: William Blake
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2016-12-13
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1101973145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Blake is one of England’s most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps. In this collection Patti Smith brings together her personal favorites of Blake’s poems, including the complete Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, to give a singular picture of this unique genius, whom she calls in her moving introduction “the spiritual ancestor” of generations of poets.
Songs of Innocence
Author: William Blake
Publisher:
Published: 1789
Total Pages: 35
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFearful Symmetry
Author: Northrop Frye
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013-04-04
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 1400847478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the riddles of the longer poems, the so-called "Prophecies," and a demonstration of Blake's insight that will amaze the modern reader. The first section of the book shows how Blake arrived at a theory of knowledge that was also, for him, a theory of religion, of human life and of art, and how this rigorously defined system of ideas found expression in the complicated but consistent symbolism of his poetry. The second and third parts, after indicating the relation of Blake to English literature and the intellectual atmosphere of his own time, explain the meaning of Blake's poems and the significance of their characters.
A Visit to William Blake's Inn
Author: Nancy Willard
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780152938222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests and residents, human and animal, at William Blake's inn.
