The last volumes in the series of William Blake's Illuminated
Books reveal the writer and artist as a prophet driven by a sense
of apocalyptic urgency. Blake conceived and executed "The
Continental Prophecies" and "The Urizen Books" in the early 1790s,
capturing the intellectual and spiritual turmoil of the American
and French revolutions. Here, for the first time, the general
reader will encounter Blake's most intense vision in reproductions
that do justice to the originals, accompanied by texts,
comprehensive notes and commentaries, and detailed interpretations
of the designs.
"The Urizen Books," made up of "Urizen," "The Book of Los," and
"Ahania," describes the dissemination of the autocratic mythology
of Urizen, Blake's inflexibly rationalist and myopic law-giver.
These books stand as the author's sensible and considered response
to the events of his time. The illuminated text of "Urizen" and the
ten full-page illustrations from copy D in the British Museum,
never before reproduced, represent a tour de force in Blake's
specialist process of color printing.
These volumes complete the six-part series of William Blake's
Illuminated Books, including "Jerusalem," "Songs of Innocence and
of Experience," "The Early Illuminated Books," and "Milton, A
Poem," all published by Princeton University Press.
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