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Eternity's sunrise : the imaginative world of William Blake / Leo Damrosch.
Author
Damrosch, Leopold
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
©2015
Description
ix, 332 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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PR4146 .D36 2015
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Subject(s)
Poets, English
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18th century
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Biography
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Poets, English
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19th century
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Biography
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Artists
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England
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Biography
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Blake, William 1757-1827
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Biographies
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Getty AAT genre
collective biographies
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Summary note
"William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and society. He was a counterculture prophet whose art still challenges us to think afresh about almost every aspect of experience--social, political, philosophical, religious, erotic, and aesthetic. He believed that we live in the midst of Eternity here and now, and that if we could open our consciousness to the fullness of being, it would be like experiencing a sunrise that never ends. Following Blake's life from beginning to end, acclaimed biographer Leo Damrosch draws extensively on Blake's poems, his paintings, and his etchings and engravings to offer this generously illustrated account of Blake the man and his vision of our world. The author's goal is to inspire the reader with the passion he has for his subject, achieving the imaginative response that Blake himself sought to excite. The book is an invitation to understanding and enjoyment, an invitation to appreciate Blake's imaginative world and, in so doing, to open the doors of our perception."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The working artist
How should we understand Blake's symbols?
Innocence
Experience
Revolution
Atoms and visionary insight
"The gate is open"
Understanding Blake's myth
The Zoas and ourselves
The prophetic call
Breakthrough to apocalypse
"The torments of love and jealousy"
The female will
Wrestling with God
The traveler in the evening.
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ISBN
9780300200676 ((hardcover : : alk. paper))
0300200676 ((hardcover : : alk. paper))
9780300223644 ((paperback))
0300223641 ((paperback))
LCCN
2015942776
OCLC
908516793
Other standard number
12410440
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