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The Illuminated Books of William Blake (The Illuminated Books of William Blake) is a landmark presentation that showcases Blake’s prophetic renderings and visionary artistry in their full chromatic and lyrical breadth. This edition foregrounds the radical fusion of text and image that defines Blake’s illuminated works, offering a comprehensive window into the poet-artist’s mythopoetic universe. ISBN 9780691037905.
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Blake’s illuminated books weave poetry, prose, and illustration into a seamless theological and mythic program, exploring themes of innocence and experience, creativity, rebellion, and spiritual revelation. The collection traces Blake’s method of combining verses with bold engravings, color, and symbolic figures to form a living manuscript that invites readers into alternate cosmologies. Across the pages, readers encounter a dynamic dialectic between visionary imagination and social critique, rendered through intricate plates and textual annunciations. The result is a densely patterned artistic-philosophical survey that challenges conventional boundaries of literature and art.
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William Blake (1757–1827) is celebrated as a poet, visual artist, and mystic whose work advanced a radical, personal mythos grounded in spiritual and political imagination. A master engraver and painter, Blake cultivated a distinctive synthesis of text and image, producing a body of illuminated poetry that influenced Romanticism and subsequent generations of artists. Though his fame grew gradually, Blake’s independent vision—bolstered by a lifelong dedication to imaginative liberty and prophetic critique—places him among the most influential figures in English literature and visual culture.
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The book presents Blake’s illuminated books as a cohesive, visionary project where text and image converge to forge a transformative poetic and artistic experience.
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1994, ISBN: 9780691037905
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William Blake, Songs of Innocence & of Experience The Illuminated Books Volume 2 1st paperback edition - Paperback
1994, ISBN: 9780691037905
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience (The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Volume 2) (Blake, 1) - Paperback
1994, ISBN: 9780691037905
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1994, ISBN: 0691037906
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About the work
The Illuminated Books of William Blake (The Illuminated Books of William Blake) is a landmark presentation that showcases Blake’s prophetic renderings and visionary artistry in their full chromatic and lyrical breadth. This edition foregrounds the radical fusion of text and image that defines Blake’s illuminated works, offering a comprehensive window into the poet-artist’s mythopoetic universe. ISBN 9780691037905.
Summary
Blake’s illuminated books weave poetry, prose, and illustration into a seamless theological and mythic program, exploring themes of innocence and experience, creativity, rebellion, and spiritual revelation. The collection traces Blake’s method of combining verses with bold engravings, color, and symbolic figures to form a living manuscript that invites readers into alternate cosmologies. Across the pages, readers encounter a dynamic dialectic between visionary imagination and social critique, rendered through intricate plates and textual annunciations. The result is a densely patterned artistic-philosophical survey that challenges conventional boundaries of literature and art.
About the author
William Blake (1757–1827) is celebrated as a poet, visual artist, and mystic whose work advanced a radical, personal mythos grounded in spiritual and political imagination. A master engraver and painter, Blake cultivated a distinctive synthesis of text and image, producing a body of illuminated poetry that influenced Romanticism and subsequent generations of artists. Though his fame grew gradually, Blake’s independent vision—bolstered by a lifelong dedication to imaginative liberty and prophetic critique—places him among the most influential figures in English literature and visual culture.
In brief
The book presents Blake’s illuminated books as a cohesive, visionary project where text and image converge to forge a transformative poetic and artistic experience.
Details of the book - The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Volume 2
EAN (ISBN-13): 9780691037905
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0691037906
Hardcover
Paperback
Publishing year: 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
212 Pages
Weight: 0,785 kg
Language: eng/Englisch
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ISBN/EAN: 0691037906
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0-691-03790-6, 978-0-691-03790-5
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Book author: paley william, blake bindman, grant william, bindman david, blake andrew lincoln, viscomi, essick, robert blake
Book title: blake songs innocence experience, the illuminated books william blake, songs innocence and experience, everything illuminated, innocence beyond, illuminate, blake and the book, song experience, volume
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