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92 plates from Book of Job, Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, visionary heads, mythological figures, Laocoon, etc.

En 1809, William Blake (1757-1827) réalise la seule exposition individuelle de ses œuvres qu’il tiendra de son vivant. Pour l’occasion il écrit un « Catalogue descriptif » des tableaux exposés, texte

El libro de Urizen fue la primera versión escrita por Blake en torno a la Caída de la humanidad que, claro está, es también la caída de Dios; sólo que partiendo de una ironía escatológica de gran alcance a la hora de subvertir los valores que todo relato sobre los origenes encierra, para Blake tanto el mito de la Caida como el de la Creacion son solo dos facetas de la misma hecatombe, el mismo drama en su doble vertiente; de modo que como hiciera en El matrimonio del cielo y del infierno , su tarea consistia en aplicar una vez mas el acido corrosivo que suprime toda falsedad, es decir, el metodo infernal que el mismo ha inventado para la impresion de sus libros o, lo que es lo mismo, dirigira su celo revisionista hacia los errores implicitos en los mitos de la Creacion, eligiendo a tal proposito aquellos dos que mas profunda huella han dejado en el, hasta el punto de sostener con ambos textos una relacion agonica que en terminos de Bloom podria resolverse en una angustia de la influencia. Nos referimos al Genesis biblico y a El paraiso perdido .

Edición bilingüe

The Oxford Poetry Library series offers compact and fully annotated editions of some of the most important and best-loved English poets. Drawing on the acclaimed texts of the Oxford Authors series, these collections provide a generous selection of the verse of figures as diverse as Andrew Marvell and William Blake, John Keats and Thomas Hardy. Ideal for anyone interested in the eloquently wrought observations and thoughts of some of the English languages greatest writers, The Oxford Poetry Library should find a welcome place on the bookshelves of all lovers of literature. Beginning his career as an engraver, it was not until his thirties that William Blake distinguished himself as a poet. This new edition of Blakes verse, presented in chronological order, encompasses Blakes entire career, from his early Poetical Sketches and There is No Natural Religion through his best known work Songs of Innocence, part of his beautiful series of poetry in lyric and blank verse, to his later works Jerusalem and The Everlasting Gospel. Representing the full range of Blakes accomplishements as a poet, this outstanding volume highlights the extraordinarily diverse achievements of his remarkable poetic oeuvre.

The core of William Blakes vision, his greatness as one of the British Romantics, is most fully expressed in his Illuminated Books, masterworks of art and text intertwined and mutually enriching. Made possible by recent advances in printing and reproduction technology, the publication of new editions of Jerusalem and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1991 was a major publishing event. Now these two volumes are followed by The Early Illuminated Books and Milton, A Poem. The books in both volumes are reproduced from the best available copies of Blakes originals and in faithfulness and accuracy match the acclaimed standards set by Jerusalem and Songs. These two volumes are uniform in format and binding with the first two volumes.

Edición Bilingüe (inglés - español) El romanticismo es un momento crucial dentro de la historia de la literatura inglesa y universal cuyas alteraciones, modificaciones y revoluciones han moldeado en

Edición multilingüe: español-italiano-alemán. William Blake ejecutó, durante los últimos años de su vida, desde 1824 hasta su muerte 1827, ciento dos acuarelas destinadas a ilustrar la Divina Comedia.