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William Blake (Paperback, New edition)
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William Blake (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Writers and Their Work, 277
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This title offers an introduction to the full range of Blake's
poetry and illuminated designs from the early Songs to the late
epics, focusing on the radical nature of Blake's art. William Blake
was a revolutionary poet and artist: 'I know myself both Poet &
Painter', he wrote. In his paintings, he created visionary images
that challenge conventional perceptions; in his poetry, he joined
words and images in the stunning form of the 'illuminated book',
where verbal and visual depictions interact. A Romantic poet and
religious visionary, he questioned Romantic assumptions and rewrote
Biblical tradition in a radical mythology for his own time. He
welcomed the eruption of the French Revolution and attacked
Britain's wars against Revolutionary France, assaulting the social
injustices of his day and critiquing the politics and psychology of
power. Steve Vine's study introduces the full range of Blake's
poetry and illuminated books from the early Songs to the late
epics, and focuses on the socially radical and challenging nature
of his art - on Blake's attempts to open what he called the 'doors
of perception' beyond limiting visions and ideologies - to what he
called 'the infinite'.
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