Burdett O. William Blake

N.-Y.: Parkstone International, 2012. — 256 p.A major figure of the Romantic Movement, the British artist William Blake (1757-1827) was at once a painter, designer, engraver and poet. He devoted himself to the illustration of his literary works, and his texts developed following the lines of his engravings and fantastic drawings, becoming veritable illuminated manuscripts. Inspired by biblical and prophetical themes (Proverbs of Hell, The Everlasting Gospel and The Gates of Paradise), Blake's art subtly combines the modernity of his time and of the Romantic Revolution with the classicism of the themes that he explored. Gifted with unequall.An Early Revelation
Boyhood, 1757-1771
Apprenticeship and Marriage, 1771-1787
The Lyrical PoemsPoetic Visions
Poland Street and the Early Prophecies, 1787-1792
Lambeth
Blake's Ideas on Art
At Felpham with Hayley, 1800-1803The Dusk of a Prophet
Milton and Jerusalem
London Once More, 1804-1809
1810-1824
Disciples and Death
Blake and the Sublime