This illustrated biography of William Blake, the great English artist, poet and mystic, seeks to encompass virtually everything that is known of his life and times. Often invoking the words of Blake's own contemporaries, G.E. Bentley describes the struggles of Blake's youth, his gradual embrace of the power of the spirit and visionary art and literature, and the serenity he achieved in his old age.
This illustrated biography of William Blake, the great English artist, poet and mystic, seeks to encompass virtually everything that is known of his life and times. Often invoking the words of Blake's own contemporaries, G.E. Bentley describes the struggles of Blake's youth, his gradual embrace of the power of the spirit and visionary art and literature, and the serenity he achieved in his old age.
G. E. Bentley, Jr., emeritus professor of English at the University of Toronto, is the author of numerous books about Blake, including Blake Records, Second Edition (ISBN 0 300 09685 2, [pound]60.00), published by Yale University Press.
"Everyone who loves Blake will be grateful to have, at last, a thoroughly reliable, fully documented and closely detailed life of him. It is an unlooked-for bonus that the book is beautifully designed." Grevel Lindop, Times Literary Supplement "Bentley affectionately and authoritatively renders the life of the artist who's now considered less madman than visionary. Via Blake's writings and drawings, records of his intimates, and thorough treatments of artworks, Bentley evokes something of the whole man - an eccentric genius who saw the world as a product of personal imagination." Publishers Weekly "Certain to become the standard biography of Blake." Choice "A masterful monument having some of the energy and irresistible authority of Blake himself." Tom D'Evelyn, The Providence Sunday Journal "A splendid account and a fitting capstone to Bentley's lifetime of Blake scholarship." FIRST THINGS
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