Blake - Couverture souple

Ackroyd, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0345376110 ISBN 13 : 9780345376114

Editeur : Ballantine Books, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Ackroyd Peter

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"MARVELOUS . . . A first-rate biography of an extraordinary man."           -- The Wall Street Journal

"SUPERB . . . Ackroyd writes with clarity and ease: His book is consistently intelligent, entertaining and affectionate. One closes its pages full of admiration for Blake and eager to study his pictures and read his poetry. . . . Ackroyd emphasizes Blake the visionary Londoner, like Turner or Dickens, and convincingly relates the poet's work to the social upheavals of his time. . . . Above all, [he] makes Blake live for the modern reader."
-- The Washington Post Book World                      

"LYRICAL AND ILLUMINATING . . .  Ackroyd is a masterly storyteller and interpreter of Blake's writing and art."  
-- Chicago Tribune

"THE WORK OF A WRITER AT THE PEAK OF HIS LITERARY POWERS . . . It is one of the great strengths of Ackroyd's writing that he reminds us that every individual life and cast of mind has a tradition behind it, a context of other lives and minds which is half forgotten or not remembered at all. As a writer, he is always letting his bucket deeper and deeper down the historical well."
-- The New Yorker

Revue de presse :

"Marvellous...deeply moving and radiant with detail... What makes Ackroyd so exceptional among biographers is the range and beauty of his knowledge.This is a book to go out and buy at once" (Observer)

"Exhilarating...has all the hypnotic power and psychological intensity of a dream-fiction" (Daily Telegraph)

"Glowing and engaged...will send many readers back to the poems enriched" (John Carey Sunday Times)

"Taut, lucid and intelligent...will surely stand as a classic of the genre" (Harpers & Queen)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ballantine Books
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0345376110
• ISBN 13: 9780345376114
• Reliure: Broché