Songs of Innocence and of Experience - Couverture souple

Blake, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0993218393 ISBN 13 : 9780993218392

Editeur : Red Axe Books, 2015

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry has led one British art journalist to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". Although he lived in London his entire life except for three years spent in Felpham he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "Human existence itself". Considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. His paintings and poetry have been characterized as part of both the Romantic movement and "Pre-Romantic", for its large appearance in the 18th century. Reverent of the Bible but hostile to the Church of England, Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American revolutions, as well as by such thinkers as Jakob Böhme and Emanuel Swedenborg. Despite these known influences, the singularity of Blake's work makes him difficult to classify. The 19th century scholar William Rossetti characterised Blake as a "glorious luminary," and as "a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors." Historian Peter Marshall has classified Blake as one of the forerunners of modern anarchism, along with Blake's contemporary William Godwin.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

William Blake's sexually charged, gloriously anarchic poems mesmerise modern minds. This new edition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience showcases him at his best, while Nigel Nelson's perceptive introduction offers fresh and surprising insight into the man and his words. Journalist, author and broadcaster Nigel Nelson is a lifelong Blake fan. He works in Parliament as political columnist for the Sunday People, and is Britain's longest serving national newspaper political editor. He has been a columnist for the Church of England Newspaper and reviews theology and medieval history books for Tribune. He has broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 5, was historian David Starkey's weekly sparring partner on Talk Radio, is a regular newspaper reviewer for BBC News and Sky News and was a familiar face on ITV's This Morning.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Red Axe Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0993218393
• ISBN 13: 9780993218392
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 76