Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake - Rilegato

Damrosch, Leo

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ISBN 10: 0300200676 ISBN 13: 9780300200676

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and society. He was a counterculture prophet whose art still challenges us to think afresh about almost every aspect of experience—social, political, philosophical, religious, erotic, and aesthetic. He believed that we live in the midst of Eternity here and now, and that if we could open our consciousness to the fullness of being, it would be like experiencing a sunrise that never ends.
 
Following Blake’s life from beginning to end, acclaimed biographer Leo Damrosch draws extensively on Blake’s poems, his paintings, and his etchings and engravings to offer this generously illustrated account of Blake the man and his vision of our world. The author’s goal is to inspire the reader with the passion he has for his subject, achieving the imaginative response that Blake himself sought to excite. The book is an invitation to understanding and enjoyment, an invitation to appreciate Blake’s imaginative world and, in so doing, to open the doors of our perception.

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L'autore:

Leo Damrosch is Research Professor of Literature, Harvard University. His previous books includeJean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius, a National Book Award finalist; Tocqueville’s Discovery of America; and Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography. He lives in Newton, MA.

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0300200676
• ISBN 13: 9780300200676
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 332