Nineteenth-century critic William Rossetti once called British painter and poet William Blake a “glorious luminary,” proclaiming him “a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors.”
Though relatively unrecognized during his lifetime, appreciation for Blake has ballooned in the last century, creating scores of notable “Blakeans” throughout the years. While considered a seminal figure in the Romantic Movement, thinker and artist William Blake truly defies categorization, creating vivid, bizzare, and multilayered poems and paintings, often of a prophetic nature. Blake purposefully strove to develop his art and thought independent of any tradition, believing the rational Western heritage to be fundamentally flawed. Blake was openly critical of the Anglican Church and of organized religion in general, yet his work consistently displays reverence for the Bible as a source of absolute truth, adding yet another layer to his art.
This collection features some of Blake’s most celebrated works, including the epic poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and an extensive volume of William Blake’s collected poems, including the popular Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. This collection is also supplemented by two biographical works—The Life of William Blake and William Blake: Painter and Poet—which offer scholarly perspectives into his life and works. Nearly 200 years after his death, the work of William Blake is celebrated with increasing enthusiasm as readers and critics continue exploring the depths of his glittering singularity and once-neglected merit.
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