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| Title | : | Blake: A Biography |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.79 (699 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 067940967X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 399 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
Extremely well done account of William Blake Glynn Young “Blake: A Biography” is classic Peter Ackroyd, whom we in the United States would call a popular as opposed to academic writer but who occupies a different position in Britain. Amateur historian and biographer he may be, but few living writers today can equal his output, erudition, and insight. He’s in the process of writing a multi-volume history of England. He’s written three novels. He’s retold the stories of the legend of King Arthur and “The Canterbury Tales.” And he’s written biograph. Sharon Reynolds Hope said Four Stars. Its the kind of book you have to set aside a time when you want a reading challenge.. Craig Matteson said Blake, London, and Beauty - What Better Combination?. In 1995 & '96 I was traveling to London regularly on business trips. During one of my site seeing ventures the name of William Blake finally penetrated my consciousness. I became fascinated with the gallery the Tate museum (now Tate Britain) had of his work. I saw this book at the airport and picked it up and it became a London obsession for me. When I would get back to London I would look up streets and sites that I had read about in this WONDERFUL book.This was the first book of Ackroyd's I read and became a fan immediately. Since he i
16 pages of black-and-white and 24 pages of full-color illustrations, plus 73 illustrations in text.
. For Ackroyd, biographer of both Charles Dickens and T. Eliot, Blake was a visionary, who long before Freud saw warfare as a form of repressed sexuality and believed there were eternal states of rage, desire and selfhood through which a man passes, keeping his soul intact. S. While eking out a living as an engraver, he offered, quite unsuccessfully, his great series of prophetic books, Songs of Innocence and Experience. William Blake, a London hosier's son, began having mystical visions at the age of eight and came to see his life as a revelation of etern
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