The stranger from paradise : a biography of William Blake
Bentley, G. E. , 1930-
The stranger from paradise : a biography of William Blake / G.E. Bentley, Jr - New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press , c2001. - xxvi, 532 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [464]-492) and index.
Though William Blake never traveled more than 60 miles from London, his was an intellectually complex life. Bentley (English, Univ. of Toronto) offers a comprehensive mapping of the life of both Blake and his wife, Catherine Boucher. Blake was born in 1757 and grew up in the language of radical religious dissent. His fundamentals of faith and growing genius impelled him to a life outside of popular political and social conventions. Enthusiastically exulting in the power of the spirit, Blake eventually created a new gospel of art that was otherworldly and essentially spiritual. Bentley traces Blake from his natal landscape, youth, marriage, and apprenticeship through to his later years as a working engraver, poet, and radical visionary. Bentley is academic and thorough, and this is more of a straight biography than an analysis.
9780300089394
00111810
Blake, William , 1757-1827
Poets, English---18th century----Biography
PR4146 / .B377 2001
92 BLA
The stranger from paradise : a biography of William Blake / G.E. Bentley, Jr - New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press , c2001. - xxvi, 532 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [464]-492) and index.
Though William Blake never traveled more than 60 miles from London, his was an intellectually complex life. Bentley (English, Univ. of Toronto) offers a comprehensive mapping of the life of both Blake and his wife, Catherine Boucher. Blake was born in 1757 and grew up in the language of radical religious dissent. His fundamentals of faith and growing genius impelled him to a life outside of popular political and social conventions. Enthusiastically exulting in the power of the spirit, Blake eventually created a new gospel of art that was otherworldly and essentially spiritual. Bentley traces Blake from his natal landscape, youth, marriage, and apprenticeship through to his later years as a working engraver, poet, and radical visionary. Bentley is academic and thorough, and this is more of a straight biography than an analysis.
9780300089394
00111810
Blake, William , 1757-1827
Poets, English---18th century----Biography
PR4146 / .B377 2001
92 BLA
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