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Presents a sweeping and romantic tale set against the historical backdrop of William Blake's London.

Burning Bright

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Tracy Chevalier

The book would be like new or new: I never read it, but there's some tiny wear (pictured)- so it's listed as excellent.

Louisiana

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New York

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Wisconsin

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The Imaginative World of William Blake

In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake's creative work while telling the story of his life

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.

Eternity's Sunrise

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

A Biography

He was a child who saw angels, a painter whose works were as neglected in his lifetime as they are celebrated today. In this innovative biography of the enigmatic eighteenth-century master, the author of Chatterton clarifies at last the true nature of William Blake's extraordinary life and art. 24-page color insert. Illustrations throughout.

Blake

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Historical fiction novel following poet William Blake in 1790s London. #poet #williamblake #historical

South Carolina

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New Jersey

Blake's Human Form Divine

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Illinois

A Novel

From the author of the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, comes a stirring eighteenth-century coming-of-age tale

In the waning days of eighteenth-century London, poet, artist, and printer William Blake works in obscurity as England is rocked by the shock waves of the French Revolution. Next door, the Kellaway family has just moved in, and country boy Jem Kellaway strikes up a tentative friendship with street-savvy Maggie Butterfield. As their stories intertwine with Blake's, the two children navigate the confusing and exhilarating path to adolescence, and inspire the poet to create the work that enshrined his genius.

A stain is on the spine and the outer edges of the pages have yellowed. 

Lovely poems. There is an index of poets and first lines. 

Poet’s Gold 

Stuart Peterfreund

Texas

Essays on Literature As Art and Science

Readers of William Blake have long known of his dislike of Bacon, Newton, & Locke-his "unholy trinity" of thinkers who, as much as anyone in England, have come to symbolize the Enlightenment. In William Blake in a Newtonian World, Stuart Peterfreund assesses Blake's relationship with various currents of the counter- Enlightenment, including religious radicalism, Freemasonry, & the growing political power of essentially self-educated radical artisans. After two decades in which cultural historians have demonstrated that Enlightenment thinkers brought to their scientific pursuits a fair amount of cultural baggage, that era no longer seems the unquestioned exaltation of logic & rationality over superstition that it once did. Moreover, the outlines of a counter-Enlightenment tradition have begun to emerge, a tradition attacking the proposition that observation can be value-free & criticizing the cultural subtexts of a science based on such reasoning. In this thought-provoking volume, Peterfreund examines Blake's struggle against Newtonianism & its discontents as played out in both his lyric & his prophetic poetry. VOLUME 2 OF THE OKLAHOMA PROJECT FOR DISCOURSE & THEORY, SERIES FOR SCIENCE & CULTURE. STUART PETERFREUND is Professor & Chair of English at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1995 to 1997 he served as president of the Society for Literature & Science, & he has held fellowships in History of Science at MIT & Harvard. "William Blake in a Newtonian World is a major contribution to Blake studies & to the discussion of science & literature in the Romantic period."--DAVID STEWART, Department of English, West Virginia University.

William Blake in a Newtonian World

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Pennsylvania

A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy, and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake.

Poet, artist, and visionary, William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. His life passed without recognition and he worked without reward, often mocked, dismissed and misinterpreted. Yet from his ignoble end in a pauper's grave, Blake now occupies a unique position as an artist who unites and attracts people from all corners of society--a rare inclusive symbol of human identity.

Blake famously experienced visions, and it is these that shaped his attitude toward politics, sex, religion, society, and art. Thanks to the work of neuroscientists and psychologists, we are now in a better position to understand what was happening inside that remarkable mind and gain a deeper appreciation of his brilliance. His timeless work, we will find, has never been more relevant.

In William Blake vs the World we return to a world of riots, revolutions, and radicals; discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s; and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics, and comparative religion. 

Taking the reader on a wild adventure into unfamiliar territory, John Higgs places the bewildering eccentricities of a most singular artist into fascinating context. And although the journey begins with us trying to understand him, we will ultimately discover that it is Blake who helps us to understand ourselves.

William Blake vs. the World

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ROMANTIC POETS: William Blake to Edgar Allen Poe edited by W H Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson illustrated by Eugene Karlin. Franklin Library "special content copyright 1982".
This hardback book measures approx 6" by 9 1/2" and has 461 pages. It has a finely sewn binding. It has a brown leather covered spine and decorative gold design on the spine and on the board's cloth covering. The end pages are decorated with a water-silk-like design. The page edges, on all three sides, are gold. There is a lovely brown satin ribbon bound in to use as a page-marker

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Arizona

ROMANTIC POETS WILLIAM BLAKE TO EDGAR ALLAN POE Franklin Library

Ohio

A Study of William Blake

Fearful Symmetry (Vintage 1969)

Quality older poetry book. One small tear/fold- see photo. Stain on cover. 

The New Home of Best Loved Poems 

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Florida

In addition to a broad selection of the poems, the volume includes over 100 images (16 in color), emphasizing the centrality of pictorial representations to Blake's verse. Biographical context is provided through dozens of excerpts from Blake's notebook, letters, marginalia, and other writings."Criticism" offers twenty wide-ranging commentaries by writers from Blake's contemporaries to present-day critics, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Northrop Frye, Allen Ginsberg, Morris Eaves, Harold Bloom, Alicia Ostriker, John Mee, Saree Makdisi, and Julia Wright.A section on Textual Technicalities, a Chronology of Blake's life and work, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines are also included.

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Burning Bright - SIGNED

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Eternity's Sunrise

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Blake

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Burning Bright

Anne K. Mellor

Blake's Human Form Divine

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Burning Bright

David Ross

Poet’s Gold

Stuart Peterfreund

William Blake in a Newtonian World

John Higgs

William Blake vs. the World

Franklin Library

ROMANTIC POETS WILLIAM BLAKE TO EDGAR ALLAN POE Franklin Library

Northrop Frye

Fearful Symmetry (Vintage 1969)

Richard Charlton MacKenzie

The New Home of Best Loved Poems

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Blake's Poetry and Designs