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The Illuminated Blake: William Blake's Complete Illuminated Works with a Plate-by-Plate Commentary

Name: The Illuminated Blake: William Blake's Complete Illuminated Works with a Plate-by-Plate Commentary
Author: David V. Erdman
ISBN: 9780486272344

by David V. Erdman, William Blake

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Overview

Monumental study, compiled and annotated by one of world's foremost Blake scholars, meticulously reproduces poet/artist's singular attempt to achieve the perfect union of painting and poetry. Erudite, penetrating analysis of such Blakean masterpieces as The Book of Thel, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Song of Los, other works.

Synopsis

Monumental, scholarly study of relationship of poem to illustration in such masterpieces as The Book of Thel, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Song of Los, more.