William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books
The poet's true genius is captured here, blending Blake's words and images as they were meant to be experienced, with 400 plates taken from the William Blake Trust's Collected Edition.
BLAKE, WILLIAM, 1757-1827ARTISTS' ILLUSTRATED BOOKSILLUMINATION OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS_CATALOGS
RELEASED2000
PUBLISHERThames & Hudson
LENGTH464
LANGUAGEEN
William Blake 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. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".[1] His visual artistry has led one British art journalist to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".[2] Although he only once journeyed farther than a day's walk outside London during his lifetime,[3] he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God",[4] or "Human existence itself".[5] ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake
William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books
by David Bindman, William Blake
The poet's true genius is captured here, blending Blake's words and images as they were meant to be experienced, with 400 plates taken from the William Blake Trust's Collected Edition.
BLAKE, WILLIAM, 1757-1827ARTISTS' ILLUSTRATED BOOKSILLUMINATION OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS_CATALOGS
RELEASED2000
PUBLISHERThames & Hudson
LENGTH464
LANGUAGEEN
William Blake 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. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".[1] His visual artistry has led one British art journalist to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".[2] Although he only once journeyed farther than a day's walk outside London during his lifetime,[3] he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God",[4] or "Human existence itself".[5] ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake
