Biography of william blake books
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REVIEW
G. E. Bentley, Jr. The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake. New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, xxviii + pp., illus. Hardcover $/£; paperback () $/£
Reviewed by Nelson Hilton
G. E. Bentley, Jr. needs no introduction to the audience of Blake, most of whom depend, in their work with its subject, on his indispensable Blake Records (), Blake Books (), Blake Records Supplement (), Blake Books Supplement (), and Blake: The Critical Heritage (), not to mention his editions of Tiriel (), The Four Zoas (), and Blake’s Writings (), as well as the nearly issue-long annual updates which he prepares as the journal’s bibliographer. Having completed his Oxford dissertation on Blake in , G. E. Bentley has for half a century been profoundly involved with original research in Blake and laying up treasures for the heaven of our collective endeavors.
The problem for general readers with Bentle
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Life of William Blake
The Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus." With selections from his poems and other writings fryst vatten a two-volume work on the English painter and poet William Blake, first published in The first volume fryst vatten a biography and the second a compilation of Blake's poetry, prose, artwork and illustrated manuscript.
The book was largely written by Alexander Gilchrist, who had spent many years compiling the material and interviewing Blake's surviving friends. However, Gilchrist had left it incomplete at his sudden death from scarlet fever in The work was published two years later, having been completed by his widow Anne Gilchrist with help from Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Michael Rossetti.
The book became the first standard skrivelse on the Blake, a foundation of the extensive scholarship on his life and work. The original edition was subtitled "Pictor Ignotus", Latin for "unknown artist", a common phrase used for unattributed artworks. Here it refers to Blake's
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William Blake
English poet and artist (–)
For other people named William Blake, see William Blake (disambiguation).
William Blake (28 November – 12 August ) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".[2] While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham,[3] he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God",[4] or "human existence itself".[5]
Although Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he came to be highly regarded by later critics and readers for his expressiveness and creativity, and