Traveller in the Evening The Last Works of William Blake

Name: Traveller in the Evening The Last Works of William Blake
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ISBN: 9780199255627

ISBN-10: 0199255628

ISBN-13: 9780199255627

Edition: 2003

Authors: Morton D. Paley

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There has never been a book about Blake's last period, from his meeting with John Linnell in 1818 to his death in 1827, although it includes some of his greatest works. In The Traveller in the Evening, Morton Paley argues that this late phase involves attitudes, themes, and ideas that are either distinctively new or different in emphasis from what preceded them. After an introduction on Blake and his milieu during this period, Paley begins with a chapter on Blake's illustrations to Thornton's edition of Virgil. Paley relates these to Blake's complex view of pastoral, before proceeding to a history of the project, its near-abortion, and its fulfillment as one of Blake's greatest…

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List price: $87.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/12/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 246
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



List of illustrations


Abbreviations


Introduction



Dark Pastoral: Illustrations to Thornton's Virgil



[actual symbol not reproducible] & His Two Sons Satan & Adam



'In Equivocal Worlds Up & Down are Equivocal': Illustrations to the Divine Comedy



'Thou Readst Black Where I Read White': The Bible


Supplementary Note: The Visionary Heads


Bibliography


General Index


Index of Works by William Blake