William Blake
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Some moisture damage
Condition remarks: Board is worn, some silverfish damage to edges.
Few figures in the history of art and literature burn as brightly — or as strangely — as William Blake, the visionary poet and painter whose work defied every convention of his age. Kathleen Raine's William Blake presents a richly illustrated and authoritative portrait of this titan of British Romanticism, chronicling his life from his humble beginnings in 18th-century London through the creation of his extraordinary mythological universe — a cosmos populated by angels, tyrants, and prophetic archetypes rendered in both soaring verse and breathtaking illuminated imagery. Raine, herself a celebrated poet and one of the foremost Blake scholars of the twentieth century, brings rare insight to her subject, arguing that Blake's art and poetry are inseparable expressions of a unified spiritual vision that challenged the mechanistic rationalism of his era. Her prose illuminates the symbolic architecture of works such as Songs of Innocence and Experience and the towering Jerusalem, revealing the profound philosophical and mystical currents that run beneath their vivid surfaces. This is not merely a biography but an act of deep intellectual communion between two poets — and it leaves the reader wondering just how far Blake's prophetic imagination truly reached.
Author: Kathleen Raine
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Some moisture damage
Condition remarks: Board is worn, some silverfish damage to edges.
Few figures in the history of art and literature burn as brightly — or as strangely — as William Blake, the visionary poet and painter whose work defied every convention of his age. Kathleen Raine's William Blake presents a richly illustrated and authoritative portrait of this titan of British Romanticism, chronicling his life from his humble beginnings in 18th-century London through the creation of his extraordinary mythological universe — a cosmos populated by angels, tyrants, and prophetic archetypes rendered in both soaring verse and breathtaking illuminated imagery. Raine, herself a celebrated poet and one of the foremost Blake scholars of the twentieth century, brings rare insight to her subject, arguing that Blake's art and poetry are inseparable expressions of a unified spiritual vision that challenged the mechanistic rationalism of his era. Her prose illuminates the symbolic architecture of works such as Songs of Innocence and Experience and the towering Jerusalem, revealing the profound philosophical and mystical currents that run beneath their vivid surfaces. This is not merely a biography but an act of deep intellectual communion between two poets — and it leaves the reader wondering just how far Blake's prophetic imagination truly reached.