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Europe A Prophecy (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)

2013-08-20 Poetry
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Release : 2013-08-20
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Book Synopsis Europe A Prophecy (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake) by : William Blake

Download or read book Europe A Prophecy (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake) written by William Blake. This book was released on 2013-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "Europe A Prophecy (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Blake's illuminated books, produced from 1783-1795, are remarkable examples of complex syntheses: of form - poetry and painting; and of subject - the real with the mythical. Blake created his own mythological creations to populate his poems and paintings: concepts and ideas became personified into universal representations. He used these mythological characters to explain and act out his singular view of history. Blake divided the nature of man into four personified elements: "Los, the imagination and eventual source of redemption; Urizen, the reason and vengeful Jehovah of the Old Testament as opposed to the merciful Christ of the New; Luvah, the senses; and Tharmas, the emotions". Each of these characters has an emanation, or female "offshoot", who is commonly a negative character attempting to dominate her male counterpart. "William Blake (1757 – 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

The Continental Prophecies

1998 Design
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Release : 1998
Genre : Design
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Download or read book The Continental Prophecies written by William Blake. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last volumes in the series of William Blake's Illuminated Books reveal the writer and artist as a prophet driven by a sense of apocalyptic urgency. Blake conceived and executed The Continental Prophecies and The Urizen Books in the early 1790s, capturing the intellectual and spiritual turmoil of the American and French revolutions. Here, for the first time, the general reader will encounter Blake's most intense vision in reproductions that do justice to the originals, accompanied by texts, comprehensive notes and commentaries, and detailed interpretations of the designs. The Continental Prophecies, which comprises "America," "Europe," and "The Song of Los," presents Blake's critical reckoning with the history of his own times. Marked by a particularly close integration of word and image, the books form a mythical plot from historical events and criticize the intricate structure of social oppression that the author attributes to organized state religion. Each of the three books attempts to point a way toward the process of millennial liberation. These volumes complete the six-part series of William Blake's Illuminated Books, including Jerusalem, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (now available in paperback), The Early Illuminated Books, and Milton, A Poem, all published by Princeton University Press.

The Song of Los (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)

2013-08-20 Poetry
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Book Synopsis The Song of Los (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake) by : William Blake

Download or read book The Song of Los (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake) written by William Blake. This book was released on 2013-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Song of Los (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Song of Los, written 1795, is one of William Blake's epic poems, known as prophetic books. The poem consists of two sections, "Africa" and "Asia". In the first section Blake catalogues the decline of morality in Europe, which he blames on both the African slave trade and enlightenment philosophers. The book provides a historical context for The Book of Urizen, The Book of Ahania, and The Book of Los, and also ties those more obscure works to The Continental Prophecies, "Europe" and "America". The second section consists of Los urging revolution. The Song of Los was one of the few works that Blake describes as "illuminated printing", one of his colour printed works with the coloured ink being placed on the copperplate before printed. William Blake was a poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver. During his life the prophetic message of his writings were understood by few and misunderstood by many. However Blake is now widely admired for his soulful originality and lofty imagination. The poetry of William Blake is far reaching in its scope and range of experience. The poems of William Blake can offer a profound symbolism and also a delightful childlike innocence. Whatever the inner meaning of Blake’s poetry we can easily appreciate the beautiful language and lyrical quality of his poetic vision.

To Raise Up a Nation

2013 History
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Release : 2013
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis To Raise Up a Nation by : William S. King

Download or read book To Raise Up a Nation written by William S. King. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrates the coming of the Civil War, the war itself, and the emancipation process, through the intertwined lives of John Brown and Frederick Douglass.

Europe

2018-04-15
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Release : 2018-04-15
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Book Synopsis Europe by : William Blake

Download or read book Europe written by William Blake. This book was released on 2018-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prophetic history of Europe shown as a dream lasting for 1800 years from the birth of Christ until the French Revolution leading to the Last Judgement, where Newton blows the first trumpet. This impressive poem is regarded as an outstanding achievement of William Blake in a "free verse" with magnificent illustrations by the author. This bilingual edition is a reproduction in the original size and full colour of William Blake's "Illuminated Manuscript" with Russian translation, an introductory essay and commentaries

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