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050	0	0	_aPR4146 _b.B377 2001
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100	1		_aBentley, G. E. _d, 1930-
245	1	4	_aThe stranger from paradise _b: a biography of William Blake _c/ G.E. Bentley, Jr
260			_aNew Haven _b: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press _c, c2001.
300			_axxvi, 532 p. _b: ill. (some col.) _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [464]-492) and index.
520			_aThough 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.
600	1	0	_aBlake, William _d, 1757-1827
650		4	_aPoets, English _y-18th century _v--Biography
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