William Blake

William Blake poeta, pintor y grabador, nació el 28 de noviembre de 1757 en el barrio londinense de Soho. Expuso sus primeras acuarelas y grabados en 1771, y un año después entró como aprendiz en el taller de grabado de James Basire, donde paso siete años. Del final de esta estancia data su etapa de simpatias revolucionarias. En 1782 contrajo matrimonio con Catherine Boucher y un año mas tarde publico su primer libro de poemas, Esbozos poeticos, al que siguieron Canciones de Inocencia (1789) y Canciones de Experiencia (1794), en las que expresa su creencia apasionada en la libertad de la imaginacion. Esta fe visionaria se plasma de manera exuberante en El matrimonio del Cielo y el Infierno (ca. 1790) y en sus poemas profeticos, entre los que destacan El libro de Thel (1789), Visiones de las hijas de Albion (1793), las profecias continentales: America (1793) y Europa (1794), Milton (1804) y Jerusalen (1804- 1818). Blake dio a conocer estos poemas en pequeñas ediciones ilustradas con grabados de hermosa y sorprendente factura. Ignorado por sus contemporaneos, trabajo como grabador profesional hasta su muerte, el 12 de agosto de 1827. William Blake es una de las figuras centrales del romanticismo europeo, pero a la vez ocupa un lugar visiblemente excentrico por el caracter disidente de su obra. Heredero de las corrientes mas contestatarias del puritanismo ingles y de la tradicion hermetica y visionaria de Jacob Bohme y Emanuel Swedenborg, Blake fue el autor de una seria de poemas profeticos en los que, valiendose de una mitologia de su invencion, reinterpreto los grandes sucesos de su epoca y la historia misma de la humanidad. Frente al materialismo que abstrae y generaliza, Blake reivindica el detalle, lo concreto, lo singular, la diferencia, el caracter sagrado de toda vida humana; frente al materialismo que solo cree en aquello que percibe por sus cinco sentidos, Blake reivindica una purificacion de las puertas de la percepcion que nos permita verlo todo tal como es, infinito y eterno. Su poesia denuncia el corazon narcisista del mundo moderno, productor de seres que vagan perpetuamente insatisfechos, cegados por una idea de progreso y bienestar material que pospone una y otra vez la plenitud vital. Este volumen recoge en edicion bilingue y en una traduccion rigurosa el grueso de su obra, incluyendo el tratado El matrimonio del Cielo y el Infierno, sus memorables Canciones de Inocencia y Experiencia y sus principales poemas profeticos: El libro de Thel, Visiones de las hijas de Albion, Europa y America, entre otros.

El poeta, pintor y grabador William Blake (1757-1827) es una de las pocas mentes poéticas auténticamente imaginativas, creador de un mundo mítico de una profundidad y coherencia únicas en la cultura europea. Su mensaje profetico, que proclama a los cuatro vientos las devastadoras consecuencias de la separacion de la mente humana de su objeto, la naturaleza, y exige la reinstauracion de la unidad original del ser, no significa para Blake una anticipacion de hechos futuros de inspiracion divina, como para los profetas biblicos, sino la capacidad de recibir visiones reveladas por agentes superiores.La presente edicion bilingue, a cargo de Bernardo Santano, reune por primera vez la totalidad de sus obras profeticas. Dividida en dos volumenes (el primero de ellos prologado por Patrick Harpur), incluye los siguientes poemarios: "Tiriel" (ca. 1789), "El libro de Thel" (ca. 1789), "El matrimonio de Cielo e Infierno" (1790), "La Revolucion francesa" (1791), "Visiones de las hijas de Albion" (1793), "America: Profecia" (1793), "Europa: Profecia" (1794), "El [primer] libro de Urizen" (1794), "El libro de Ahania" (1795), "El libro de Los" (1795), "El cantar de Los" (1795) y "Vala, o los cuatro Zoas" (1797-1804).Los Libros profeticos nunca habian sido editados de forma completa en español. El hecho de venir aqui acompañados de todas sus laminas en color concede por primera vez al lector de lengua española la posibilidad de acercarse a la obra de Blake tal como este la concibio: como una serie de poemas ilustrados cuya indisoluble unidad entre texto e imagen se asemeja mucho a los codices miniados de la Edad Media.

El poeta, pintor, grabador y profeta William Blake (1757-1827) es una de las pocas mentes poéticas auténticamente imaginativas, creador de un mundo mítico de una profundidad y coherencia únicas en la cultura europea. Su obra ha sido denominada con razon visionaria. Sin embargo, lo profetico no significa para Blake una anticipacion de hechos futuros por inspiracion divina, sino una capacidad para recibir una serie de visiones que le han sido reveladas por agentes superiores.La presente edicion bilingue, a cargo de Bernardo Santano, reune por primera vez la totalidad de sus libros profeticos, dividida en dos volumenes. Este segundo volumen comprende sus dos ultimas obras, Milton: poema en dos libros (1804-1810) y Jerusalen: la Emanacion del Gigante Albion (1804-1820). Y se cierra con un exhaustivo glosario, imprescindible para la adecuada comprension de los nombres y conceptos del complejo mundo mitologico blakeano.Los Libros profeticos nunca habian sido editados de forma completa en español. El hecho de que sus poemas vengan acompañados de todas sus laminas concede por primera vez al lector de lengua española la posibilidad de acercarse a su obra tal como el poeta la concibio: como una serie de poemarios ilustrados con una indisoluble unidad entre texto e imagen, muy semejante a los codices miniados de la Edad Media.El segundo volumen, integrado por "Milton: poema en dos libros" (1804-1810) y "Jerusalen, la emanacion del gigante Albion" (1804-1820), se cierra con un exhaustivo glosario, imprescindible para la adecuada comprension de los nombres y conceptos del complejo mundo mitologico blakeano.

"El matrimonio del cielo y el infierno" ocupa un lugar privilegiado en la evolución poética y artística del William Blake (1757-1827). Educado en la tradición disidente o inconformista, es decir, en la religion de aquellos que aceptaron la ruptura con Roma pero no el sometimiento a la nueva Iglesia de Inglaterra fundada desde la monarquia, Blake planeo una obra que le brindara la posibilidad de denunciar la moral instituida, exponer su vision antinomica del mundo, expresar sus ideas sobre el origen de las religiones e incluir un canto revolucionario, la "Cancion de la libertad", muestra de la energia revolucionaria que se desato a finales del siglo XVIII. Uno de los rasgos mas desconcertantes de "El matrimonio del cielo y el infierno" es la variedad de elementos que la componen: ilustraciones y poemas, dialogos y parodias, una teoria de la percepcion, proverbios, una teogonia, un canto politico, manifiestos religiosos y varios descensos a los infiernos. Esta edicion ofrece el texto en edicion bilingue y reproduce el facsimil de las 25 planchas originales.

Inspirado en el libro del Génesis, cuenta el mito originario de Urizen, encarnación de la sabiduría convencional y de la ley, creador de un mundo de alienación y opresión en el que, tras sucesivas caidas, acabara naciendo la forma humana y con ella la promesa de la emancipacion y la revolucion.El libro tendra ocho ediciones distintas entre 1794 y 1818, todas ellas iluminadas a mano por el propio Blake, con ese lenguaje visual plano que anticipa la libertad expresiva del arte contemporaneo.

A unique edition of this rare and wonderful book reproducing William Blake''s own illumination and lettering from the finest existing example of the original work. This beautiful pocket-sized book, is seeming simplicity belying its visionary wisdom. Internationally recognised as a masterpiece of English literature, it also occupies a key position in the history of western art. This unique edition of the work allows Blake to communicate with his readers as he intended, reproducing Blake''s own illumination and lettering from the finest existing example of the original work. In this way readers can experience the mystery and beauty of Blake''s poetry as he first created it, discovering for themselves the intricate web of symbol and meaning that connects word and image.Each poem is accompanied by a literal transcription, and the volume is introduced by the renowned historian and critic, Richard Holmes.This beautiful edition of The Songs of Innocence and Experience will be essential for those familiar with Blake''s work, but also offers an ideal way into his visionary world for those encountering Blake for the first time.Published in association with The Blake Trust.

Talvez o poeta mais original da literatura inglesa, William Blake foi uma espécie de símbolo das manifestações socioculturais dos anos 1960 e 1970. Ao lado da psicologia de Carl Jung e Sigmund Freud,

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Illuminated Books of William Blake (Unabridged - With All The Original Illustrations)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Taking his inspiration from the illuminated manuscripts of the middle ages, Blake invented the process of creating Illuminated Books. Between 1788 and early 1795 Blake published a series of fifteen Illuminated Books. He returned to creating Illuminated Books in 1804 when he began work on Milton (finished in 1808 or later) and Jerusalem. Blake committed himself in the minute particulars of producing his Illuminated Books. The process included creating a mental image, drawing, composing the design and poetry of the plate, engraving, printing, painting, compiling and selling. From inception to final production the color copy of Jerusalem was labored over for sixteen years. William Blake (1757 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. 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.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Songs of Experience (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Songs of Experience is the second part of Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (first published in 1794), an expansion of Blakes first illuminated book Songs of Innocence. The poems and artwork were reproduced by copperplate engraving and colored with washes by hand. Blake republished Songs of Innocence and Experience several times, often changing the number and order of the plates. The spellings, punctuation and capitalizations are those of the original Blake manuscripts. William Blake (1757 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. 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. CONTENT: Introduction Earths Answer The Clod and the Pebble Holy Thursday The Little Girl Lost The Little Girl Found The Chimney-Sweeper Nurses Song The Sick Rose The Fly The Angel The Tiger My Pretty Rose Tree Ah, Sunflower The Lily The Garden of Love The Little Vagabond London The Human Abstract Infant Sorrow A Poison Tree A Little Boy Lost A Little Girl Lost A Divine Image A Cradle Song The Schoolboy To Tirzah

This carefully crafted ebook: "Songs of Experience (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Songs of Experience is the second part of Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (first published in 1794), an expansion of Blakes first illuminated book Songs of Innocence. The poems and artwork were reproduced by copperplate engraving and colored with washes by hand. Blake republished Songs of Innocence and Experience several times, often changing the number and order of the plates. The spellings, punctuation and capitalizations are those of the original Blake manuscripts. William Blake (1757 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. 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. CONTENT: Introduction Earths Answer The Clod and the Pebble Holy Thursday The Little Girl Lost The Little Girl Found The Chimney-Sweeper Nurses Song The Sick Rose The Fly The Angel The Tiger My Pretty Rose Tree Ah, Sunflower The Lily The Garden of Love The Little Vagabond London The Human Abstract Infant Sorrow A Poison Tree A Little Boy Lost A Little Girl Lost A Divine Image A Cradle Song The Schoolboy To Tirzah

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Book of Thel (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional table of contents. The Book of Thel is a poem by William Blake, dated 1789 and probably composed in the period 1788 to 1790. It is illustrated by his own plates, and is relatively short and easy to understand, compared to his later prophetic books. The metre is a fourteen-syllable line. It was preceded by Tiriel, which Blake left in manuscript. A few lines from Tiriel were incorporated into The Book of Thel. Most of the poem is in unrhymed verse. This book consists of eight plates executed in illuminated printing. Sixteen copies of the original print of 1789-1793 are known. Three copies bearing a watermark of 1815 are more elaborately colored than the others. William Blake (1757 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. 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.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Ghost of Abel: A Revelation In the Visions of Jehovah Seen by William Blake (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Eternity, Jehovah, Adam, Eva, Cains, Death, Sin This brief drama addressed to Lord Byron, whose Cain, a Mystery appeared in 1821, treats the themes of revenge, atonement, forgiveness, and self-annihilation through the reactions of Adam, Eve, Satan, and Jehovah to the first murder. The two plates of the work were etched in relief in 1822. William Blake (1757 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. 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.

This carefully crafted ebook: "For Children: The Gates of Paradise (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. First published in a limited run in 1793. He later changed the title to For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, and added several more drawings as well as a preface and concluding verse, publishing this version in 1818.The seventeen emblematic drawings and their commentaries depict the life of man from birth to death: passage through the four elements (water, earth, wind and fire), hatching as a child from the "mundane shell," encountering women ("What are these! Alas! the Female Martyr, Is She also the Divine Image?"), reaching for the moon of love ("I want, I want"), falling into Times Ocean. William Blake (1757 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. 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.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Book of Urizen (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Book of Urizen is one of the major prophetic books of the English poet William Blake, illustrated by Blakes own plates. It was originally published as The First Book of Urizen in 1794. Later editions dropped the word "first". The book takes its name from the character Urizen in Blakes mythology, who represents alienated reason as the source of oppression. The book describes Urizen as the "primeaval priest", and describes how he became separated from the other Eternals to create his own alienated and enslaving realm of religious dogma. Los and Enitharmon create a space within Urizens fallen universe to give birth to their son Orc, the spirit of revolution and freedom. In form, the book is a parody of the Book of Genesis, with Blakes Urizen being more similar to the demiurge of the Gnostics than a benevolent creator. The poems of William Blake reinterpret the spiritual history of the human race from the fall from Eden to the beginning of the French Revolution. Blake believed in the correspondence between the physical world and the spiritual world and used poetic metaphor to express these beliefs. In his poetry, we hear a man who looks for mankind to salvage his redemption from oppression through resurgence of imaginative life. The power of repression is a constant theme in Blakes poems and he articulates his belief in the titanic forces of revolt and the struggle for freedom against the guardians of tradition. "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.

This carefully crafted ebook: "America A Prophecy (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. America a Prophecy is a 1793 prophetic book by English poet and illustrator William Blake. It is engraved on eighteen plates, and survives in fourteen known copies. It is the first of Blakes Continental prophecies. America was one of the few works that Blake describes as "illuminated printing", those of which were either hand coloured or colour printed with the ink being placed on the copperplate before printed. Early sketches for America were also included in his notebook, which Blake used between 1790 and 1793. William Blake (1757 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. 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.

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 Blakes 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 Blakes poetry we can easily appreciate the beautiful language and lyrical quality of his poetic vision.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Originally produced in 1793, Visions of the Daughters of Albion has become one of Blakes most widely read and interpreted prophecies. The main character is a liberation figure challenging not only male chauvinism and marriage but the institution of slavery and imperialism in general. The female protagonist Oothoon, a sex slave who is raped by the slave driver Bromion, is clearly made to represent both the fertile, virginal and innocent lands of the pre-colonialism New World and the oppression of the women of Blakes time, who were, like slaves, treated as property of their husbands. In the course of his poem Oothoon becomes the ultimate symbol for liberation both as a woman and as a slave. William Blake (1757 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. 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.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Book of Ahania (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Book of Ahania is one of the English poet William Blakes prophetic books. It was published in 1795, illustrated by Blakes own plates. The poem of the book consists of six chapters. The content concerns Fuzon, a son of Urizen, a Zoa or major aspect in Blakes mythology. Ahania of the title is Urizens female counterpart. 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 Blakes poetry we can easily appreciate the beautiful language and lyrical quality of his poetic vision.

This carefully crafted ebook: "For the Sexes: the Gates of Paradise (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Gates of Paradise, were first published in a limited run in 1793. W.Blake later changed the title to For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, and added several more drawings as well as a preface and concluding verse, publishing this version in 1818. The seventeen emblematic drawings and their commentaries depict the life of man from birth to death: passage through the four elements (water, earth, wind and fire), hatching as a child from the "mundane shell," encountering women, reaching for the moon of love ("I want, I want"), falling into Times Ocean. After several other episodes he finally arrives at the deaths door with Jobs words: "I have said to the Worm: Thou art my mother and my sister." There a female figure is "Weaving to Dreams the Sexual strife, And Weeping over the Web of Life." William Blake (1757 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. 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.

This carefully crafted ebook: "All Religions Are One & There Is No Natural Religion (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional table of contents. All Religions are One is the title of a series of philosophical aphorisms by William Blake, written in 1788. Following on from his initial experiments with relief etching in the non-textual The Approach of Doom (1787), All Religions are One and There is No Natural Religion represent Blakes first successful attempt to combine image and text via relief etching, and are thus the earliest of his illuminated manuscripts. As such, they serve as a significant milestone in Blakes career. William Blake (1757 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. 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.