The Early Illuminated Books

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Princeton University Press, 1993 - 286 страница

The core of William Blake's vision, his greatness as one of the British Romantics, is most fully expressed in his Illuminated Books, masterworks of art and text intertwined and mutually enriching. Made possible by recent advances in printing and reproduction technology, the publication of new editions of Jerusalem and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1991 was a major publishing event. Now these two volumes are followed by The Early Illuminated Books and Milton, A Poem. The books in both volumes are reproduced from the best available copies of Blake's originals and in faithfulness and accuracy match the acclaimed standards set by Jerusalem and Songs. These two volumes are uniform in format and binding with the first two volumes.


The Early Illuminated Books comprises All Religions Are One and There Is No Natural Religion; Thel; Marriage of Heaven and Hell; and Visions of the Daughters of Albion. Milton, A Poem, second only to Jerusalem in extent and ambition, is accompanied by Laoco n, The Ghost of Abel, and On Homer's Poetry.

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PREFACE
7
FOREWORD
8
INTRODUCTION
9
A NOTE ON TEXT AND VARIANTS
16
CITATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS
18
ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE and THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION
19
Introduction
21
Text and Reproduction
43
Notes to Blakes Text
106
THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL
109
Introduction
111
Text and Reproduction
139
Supplementary Illustrations
186
Notes to Blakes Text
200
VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION
215
Introduction
217

Supplementary Illustrations
68
THE BOOK OF THEL
69
Introduction
71
Text and Reproduction
87
Supplementary Illustrations
100
Text and Reproduction
235
Supplementary Illustrations
255
Notes to Blakes Text
265
WORKS CITED
269
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William Blake's poems, prophecies, and engravings represent his strong vision and voice for rebellion against orthodoxy and all forms of repression. Born in London in November 1757; his father, a hosier of limited means, could do little for the boy's education. However, when the young Blake's talent for design became apparent, his wise father sent him to drawing school at the age of 10. In 1771 Blake was apprenticed to an engraver. Blake went on to develop his own technique, a method he claimed that came to him in a vision of his deceased younger brother. In this, as in so many other areas of his life, Blake was an iconoclast; his blend of printing and engraving gave his works a unique and striking illumination. Blake joined with other young men in support of the Revolutions in France and America. He also lived his own revolt against established rules of conduct, even in his own home. One of his first acts after marrying his lifetime companion, Catherine Boucher, was to teach her to read and write, rare for a woman at that time. Blake's writings were increasingly styled after the Hebrew prophets. His engravings and poetry give form and substance to the conflicts and passions of the elemental human heart, made real as actual characters in his later work. Although he was ignored by the British literary community through most of his life, interest and study of his work has never waned. Blake's creativity and original thinking mark him as one of the earliest Romantic poets, best known for his Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) and The Tiger. Blake died in London in 1827.

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