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Milton a poem : and the final illuminated works: The ghost of Abel, On Homers poetry (and) On Virgil, Laoco"on by William Blake is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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William Blake's Milton, One Of His Two Great Illuminated Epics, Is Featured In This Fifth Volume Of The Blake Trust Collected Edition Of Blake's Illuminated Books. This Is The First-ever Reproduction Of The Magnificent Copy Of Milton In The New York Public Library, Presented Here In Full Colour. As The Editors Demonstrate, This Was Blake's Own Copy And Reflects His Final Intentions For One Of His Most Sublime, And At The Same Time Most Personal, Poems. Blake's Three Final Works In Illuminated Printing, The Ghost Of Abel, On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil, And Laocoon, Are Also Included In This Volume. Although Brief, These Texts And Their Accompanying Designs Present Some Of Blake's Most Important Statements On Art, Religion, And The Spirit Of Imagination They Share. Nineteen Additional Illustrations Of Related Drawings And Variant Printings Of The Plates, Many In Colour, Supplement All Four Works.^ Milton Is A Difficult And Cryptic Poem For Those Uninitiated In The Ways Of Blake's Allusive And Allegorical Style. In An Introductory Essay, The Editors Directly Address The Nature Of The Poem's Complexity, Demonstrate How Blake's Methods Set Out To Disconcert Conventional Concepts Of T

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Author
William Blake
Publisher
William Blake Trust/Princeton University Press, published with the assistance of the Getty Grant Foundation
Published
1993
Language
EN
ISBN
9780691069364
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Poetry, Art

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