Length6h 54m
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Poet, draughtsman, engraver and painter, William Blake's work is made up of several elements – Gothic art, Germanic reverie, the Bible, Milton and Shakespeare – to which were added Dante and a certain taste for linear designs, resembling geometric diagrams, and relates him to the great classical movement inspired by Winckelmann and propagated by David. This is the sole point of contact discernible between the classicism of David and English art, though furtive and indirect. Blake is the most mystic of the English painters, perhaps the only true mystic. He was ingenious in his inner imagination, and his interpretations of ancient and modern poets reveal as true and candid a spirit as the title of his first work – poems he composed, illustrated and set to music, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Later he achieved grandeur, power and profundity, especially in certain tempera paintings. Just like others, Blake was considered an eccentric by most of his contemporaries, until his genius was recognised in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Length6 hrs 54 mins
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Publish dateDec 28, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2I. An Early Revelation
3Boyhood, 1757-1771
4Apprenticeship and Marriage, 1771-1787
5The Lyrical Poems
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6II. Poetic Visions
7Poland Street and the Early Prophecies, 1787-1792
8Lambeth
9Blake’s Ideas on Art
10At Felpham with Hayley, 1800-1803
11III. The Dusk of a Prophet
12Milton and Jerusalem
13London Once More, 1804-1809
141810-1824
15Disciples and Death
16Blake and the Sublime
17Henri Matisse. A quest for light, colour and freedom
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