Blake - Couverture rigide

Ackroyd, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1856192784 ISBN 13 : 9781856192781

Editeur : Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

A biography of William Blake. Poet, painter, engraver, visionary, his was a radical spirit fired by genius. The book presents Blake in the context of his period: we see him caught up in the Gordon Riots, excited by the French Revolution and attracted by various forms of spiritual radicalism and sexual magic. Peter Ackroyd has also written "Dickens", a biography of Charles Dickens.

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

Biographie de l'auteur

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1856192784
• ISBN 13: 9781856192781
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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