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THE TRAVELLER IN THE EVENING - THE LAST WORKS OF WILLIAM BLAKE
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| By: |
Morton D. Paley |
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Paperback |
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£34.49 |
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£33.46 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199227616 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199227617 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
8 November, 2007 |
| Pages: |
348 |
| Description: |
The Traveller in the Evening is a study of Blake's poetry, art, and thought during the last years of his life, from 1818 to 1827. Morton Paley considers some of Blake's major accomplishments, including Blake's wood engravings for Thornton's Virgil, the separate plate known as The Laocoon, 101 illustrations to Dante's IDivine Comedy, and the great series of Illustrations to the Book of Job. Paley shows us a Blake who hasflowered during his late years; a Blake who is free of any 'systems', including his own. |
| Synopsis: |
There has never been a book about Blake's last period, from his meeting with John Linnell in 1818 to his death in 1827, although it includes some of his greatest works. In The Traveller in the Evening, Morton Paley argues that this late phase involves attitudes, themes, and ideas that are either distinctively new or different in emphasis from what preceded them. After an introduction on Blake and his milieu during this period, Paley begins with a chapter on Blake's illustrations to Thornton's edition of Virgil. Paley relates these to Blake's complex view of pastoral, before proceeding to a history of the project, its near-abortion, and its fulfillment as Blake's one of greatest accomplishments as an illustrator. In Yah and His Two Sons the presentation of the divine, except where it is associated with art, is ambiguous where it is not negative. Paley takes up this separate plate in the context of artists's representations of the Laocoon that would have been known to Blake, and als |
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38 black-and-white halftones |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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