William Blake (1) (1757–1827)
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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 visa mer 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. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av William Blake
Complete Writings with Variant Readings (Oxford Standard Authors Series) {Keynes, ed.} (1927) 413 exemplar
The complete poetry and selected prose of John Donne & the complete poetry of William Blake (1941) 183 exemplar
The Illuminated Blake: William Blake's Complete Illuminated Works with a Plate-by-Plate Commentary (1974) — Författare — 166 exemplar
Blake's "America: A Prophecy" and "Europe: A Prophecy": Facsimile Reproductions of Two Illuminated Books (1983) — Författare — 83 exemplar
Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series Book 10) (2012) 36 exemplar
An exhibition of the illuminated books of William Blake, poet, printer, prophet (1964) — Illustratör — 10 exemplar
The Poems of William Blake 8 exemplar
Blake: (1757-1827) with an introduction and notes by Geoffrey Keynes (The Pitman Gallery) (1949) — Artist — 7 exemplar
Selected Poems of William Blake 6 exemplar
William Blake, 1757-1827 : le génie visionnaire du romantisme anglais : Petit Palais, musée des beaux-arts de la… (2008) 6 exemplar
WILLIAM BLAKE COMPLETE WORKS ULTIMATE COLLECTION 250 WORKS All Poetry, Poems, Prose, Annotations, Letters, Rarities… (2013) 6 exemplar
The Notebook of William Blake : a Photographic and Typographic Facsimile (1973) — Författare — 6 exemplar
Poems of William Blake (ed. Yeats) 5 exemplar
The Copperheads 4 exemplar
The Poetical Works: Lyrical and Miscellaneous (The Aldine ed. of the English poets) (2015) 4 exemplar
The Writings Of William Blake VolumeII 4 exemplar
William Blake; an introduction 4 exemplar
Blake's Grave; a prophetic book, being William Blake's illustrations for Robert Blair's The grave, arranged as Blake… (1963) — Illustratör — 4 exemplar
The Sick Rose 4 exemplar
Llibres profetics de William Blake: Seleccio (Els Llibres de l'Escorpi : Poesia ; 33) (Catalan Edition) (1976) 4 exemplar
William Blake. Tempera Paintings. A Critical Catalogue, With An Introduction By Geoffrey Keynes. William Blake Trust. (1951) 3 exemplar
Ægteskabet mellem himmel og helvede 3 exemplar
Holes in the texture of time : a reading of William Blake from notebooks, letters and prophetic works (1994) 3 exemplar
The Writings Of William Blake Volume III 3 exemplar
The Lamb 3 exemplar
The poems: Comprising Songs of innocence and of experience, together with Poetical sketches and some copyright poems… (1874) 3 exemplar
The Little Black Boy 3 exemplar
William Blake : selected engravings 2 exemplar
Augustan Books of Poetry William Blake 2 exemplar
Oeuvres II poèmes tirés de divers manuscrits, l'évangile éternel, les portes du paradis (1977) 2 exemplar
A UNIÃO DO CÉU E DO INFERNO 2 exemplar
Poesie 2 exemplar
Poemas proféticos y prosas 2 exemplar
Libros proféticos, vol. 1 2 exemplar
Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) 2 exemplar
Divine Comedy, illustrated by William Blake 2 exemplar
Blake Poetry 2 exemplar
Poesía romántica inglesa 2 exemplar
The Laurel Poetry Series Blake 2 exemplar
Poems of Blake 2 exemplar
Blake's Illustrations of Dante 2 exemplar
Pencil Drawings 2 exemplar
Eight songs of William Blake 2 exemplar
Jerusalem. A simplified version prepared and edited with commentary and notes by William R. Hughes (1964) 2 exemplar
Poems ... Selected with an introduction by Alice Meynell. With a portrait (Red Letter Library.) 2 exemplar
Blake's Pencil Drawings 2 exemplar
Illustrations to the Divine comedy of Dante 2 exemplar
Works of William Blake. (100 Works) Incl: Songs of Innocence and Experience, Poetical Sketches, The Marriage of Heaven… (2007) 2 exemplar
Walking Round Cambridge with William Blake 2 exemplar
Poems (Tod Ruthven ed.) 2 exemplar
Poetry 2 exemplar
Ah Sunflower {poem} 2 exemplar
POESIA E PROSA SELECIONADAS 1 exemplar
The Song of Jerusalem (from Works Vol. 3) 1 exemplar
William Blake's Designs for Edward Young's "Night Thoughts": A Complete Edition Volumes I and II (1980) 1 exemplar
Poems of William Blake 1 exemplar
William Blake - The Poems 1 exemplar
William Blake 1757 - 1827 1 exemplar
Practice is art 1 exemplar
The Poetical Works (E.J. Ellis ed.) 1 exemplar
The act of creation 1 exemplar
Without unceasing practice nothing can be done. Practice is art. If you leave off you are lost. 1 exemplar
Poesia & prosa selecionadas 1 exemplar
Jérusalem. L'émanation du grand Albion 1 exemplar
William Blake, poesia e prosa selecionadas 1 exemplar
The Temple of Mirth 1 exemplar
William_Blake_-_Blake_Poems 1 exemplar
Songs of innocence, and other poems 1 exemplar
The Centenary Edition of Blake's Poetry and Prose. Complete in One Volume. Thin Paper Edition. (1927) 1 exemplar
OBRA POÉTICA COMPLETA (2 VOLÚMENES) 1 exemplar
KENGET E PAFAJESISE DHE TE PERVOJES 1 exemplar
KENGET E PAFAJSISE DHE TE PERVOJES 1 exemplar
Bodas del cielo y el infierno ; El libro de Thel Tiriel ; Visiones de las hijas de Albión (2000) 1 exemplar
Canções de Inocência e Experiência 1 exemplar
The writings of William Blake. Volume II 1 exemplar
The writings of William Blake. Volume I 1 exemplar
Temevo la furia del mio vento... 1 exemplar
William Blake's Lacoon, A Last Testament 1 exemplar
Writings, Vol. I 1 exemplar
William Blake's engravings 1 exemplar
Jerusalem Part IV 1 exemplar
[For Children. The Gates of Paradise.] 1 exemplar
Selected Poems 1 exemplar
Innocenza e crudeltà (testo a fronte) 1 exemplar
Le visioni 1 exemplar
Poesie di William Blake 1 exemplar
The Wild Flower's Song [from Three Songs of William Blake]: Low voice — Lyrics — 1 exemplar
52 poesie 1 exemplar
A Famous Collection of Works by William Blake, the property of the late Graham Robertson, Esq. 1 exemplar
The Four Seasons 1 exemplar
Illustrations To The Bible 1 exemplar
Two Songs: Infant Sorrow & Infant Joy 1 exemplar
William Blake's Illustrations of The Book of Job: (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William… (2013) 1 exemplar
Spring 1 exemplar
Poetic Works of William Blake 1 exemplar
Svět v zrnku písku 1 exemplar
Selections from the Writings of William Blake. With an introductory essay by Laurence Housman. L.P. (2010) 1 exemplar
Seçme Şiirler 1 exemplar
a selection of verses, blake 1 exemplar
Versek es Profeciak 1 exemplar
Engelen 1 exemplar
Poemas esenciales 1 exemplar
The Canterbury Poets 1 exemplar
William Blake -Museum of Fine Arts Boston 1 exemplar
Selected Poems. Edited by Stanley Gardner. 1 exemplar
Visioni di William Blake 1 exemplar
Eternity 1 exemplar
The Serpent Attacking Buoso Donati 1 exemplar
LIBRI PROFETICI W.Blake a cura di R.Sanesi con testo inglese a fronte - Tascabili Bompiani 400 ed.1986 (1986) 1 exemplar
POEMAS PROFETICOS Y PROSAS 1 exemplar
And Did Those Feet in Ancient Times {poem} 1 exemplar
Poems by Blake 1 exemplar
Pjesme / Viđenja / Proročanstva 1 exemplar
The French Revolution 1 exemplar
Nurse's Song [Experience] 1 exemplar
On Homer's Poetry & On Virgil 1 exemplar
Nurse's Song [Innocence] 1 exemplar
Aphorisms on the Laocoön Group 1 exemplar
The Everlasting Gospel 1 exemplar
A Vision of the Last Judgment 1 exemplar
The Clod and the Pebble {poem} 1 exemplar
The Wit's magazine 1 exemplar
Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrims,: Painted in fresco by William Blake & by him engraved and published October 8, 1810 (1810) 1 exemplar
Poems of, The 1 exemplar
Llibres profètics de William Blake 1 exemplar
Los bosques de la noche: Poemas, canciones y epigramas (Coleccion La Cruz del Sur) (Spanish Edition) (2001) 1 exemplar
Oeuvres I 1 exemplar
William Blake: Illustrated Poets Series 1 exemplar
The Poems of William Blake, Oxford UP, 1960 1 exemplar
The Poems of William Blake: Comprising Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Together with Poetical Sketches and Some… (2015) 1 exemplar
Christ Trampling Urizen 1 exemplar
Select poems of William Blake 1 exemplar
Poems Poèmes 1 exemplar
The Pit of Disease: The Falsifiers 1 exemplar
Mrs. Q 1 exemplar
The Baffled Devils Fighting 1 exemplar
Novelist's Magazine: Plate XXIII: Grandison 1 exemplar
Novelist's Magazine: Plate XII: Grandison 1 exemplar
Kehanet Kitapları I-II 1 exemplar
Fall of Rosamund 1 exemplar
Industrious Cottager 1 exemplar
Revd Robert Hawker, DD 1 exemplar
Twenty-seven drawings by William Blake: Being Illustrations for Paradise Lost, Comus and The Bible 1 exemplar
Revd. John Caspar Lavater 1 exemplar
Vjecno jevandjelje 1 exemplar
Peaceful Mind: The Teaching of Buddha - The Oldest Buddhist Scripture 'Sutta Nipata' (2017) 1 exemplar
Idle Laundress 1 exemplar
The land of dreams : poems 1 exemplar
POESIA ROMANTICA INGLESA 1 exemplar
Poems and letters, a selection 1 exemplar
Essential Blake 1 exemplar
Selected Poetry and Prose of Willam Blake 1 exemplar
William Blake Antología poética: Selección de libros proféticos traducidos al español (Spanish Edition) (2017) 1 exemplar
William Blake Sketch Book facsimile 1 exemplar
[Wood engravings of William Blake: Seventeen subjects commissioned by Dr. Robert Thornton for his Virgil of 1821] (1840) 1 exemplar
Life and Works of William Blake Vol. 2 1 exemplar
Blake (1757-1827) the Pitman Gallery 1 exemplar
Dante Striking Against Bocca degli Abati 1 exemplar
Blake Newsletter: An Illustrated Quarterly. volumes 1-4#1, 5-12, 14-42, (1972-2008) (1972) 1 exemplar
The engraved designs of William Blake 1 exemplar
Späte Liebe 1 exemplar
The French Revolution 1 exemplar
Poems & Prose 1 exemplar
Escritos de William Blake; Edição Bilingue 1 exemplar
William Blake - designs for Blair's Grave (cat. de ventes, New York, Sotheby’s, 2 mai 2006) 1 exemplar
Uil'yam Bleik : Stikhi 1 exemplar
Vahiy Kitaplari 1 exemplar
Poems and Prophecies (Everyman's Library) 1 exemplar
William Blake. Chants d'innocence et d'expérience : Traduit de l'anglais par M.-L. et Philippe… (1947) 1 exemplar
The Melbourne Dante illustrations 1 exemplar
Czterej Zoa : męki miłowania i zazdrości, gdy umarł i był osądzony Albion pradawny człowiek (2006) 1 exemplar
Poèmes (Bilingue Aubier-Flammarion) 1 exemplar
Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith (Vintage Classics) by William Blake (1-Nov-2007) Paperback (1600) 1 exemplar
Water-color Drawings 1 exemplar
Poems by William Blake 1 exemplar
night 1 exemplar
The Complete Works of William Blake: 29 Books and Collections With Active Table of Contents (English Edition) (2014) 1 exemplar
A letter from William Blake 1 exemplar
Poems of William Blake 1 exemplar
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Blake var egentligen graverare till professionen, och försörjde sig så. Sina egna skrifter tog han fram med en egenuppfunnen metod, som tillät honom att på samma tryckblad blanda text och grafik, som sedan kunde färgläggas. Arbetet var förvisso långsamt, men resultatet är ofta mycket vackert, speciellt som han var skicklig grafiker. I The complete illuminated books har alla hans sådana verk samlats: det är egentligen först med senare tids tekniska framsteg som Blakes ursprungliga visioner kunnat återges rättvist till en större publik.
I de religiöst inriktade skrifter som dominerar volymen laborerar han istället med intrikata teologiska framställningar, där detaljerna ändras men vissa gestalter återkommer, som Orc, en revolutionär ande, Urizen, en demiurgliknande figur, det rena förståndet och den fjättrande religionens upphov, samt profeten Los. Världsbilden är Swedenborgskt och gnostiskt färgad, bibelns berättelser hålls för en korruption av den sanna historien, och den organiserade religionen är en tvångströja människorna lurats in i.
Den poetiska framställningen är något utmattande, med diverse namn på olika mer eller mindre välvilliga andar och kosmologiska beskrivningar och mytologi, och allt känns tämligen dött, svårt att anknyta till. Ibland blir det förryckt storslaget, som när samtida händelser omvandlas till mytologiska (så till exempel amerikanska befrielsekriget i America: a prophecy) eller tänkare som Locke, Newton och Voltaire åkallas som en sorts demoner; Milton ges till och med titelrollen i en av skrifterna, även om han knappast går att skilja från de övriga symboliska makterna.
The complete illuminated books är en bok mer för konst- än poesiälskaren. Även om poesin fortfarande kan njutas, så gör formatet det svårt och bristen på kommentarer att texten är svårarbetad. Att trycket utsökt återger originalen gör inte att detta blir mycket lättare att läsa, för även om den handstil Blake uppvisar inte är svårtydd annat än undantagsvis så gör färgerna att kontrasten blir lidande. Texten finns också utskriven i noter i slutet av boken, men hur man än väljer att hantera den blir läsningen långsam och syftet att tillgängliggöra text och bild som en helhet lyckas inte helt.… (mer)