William Blake

The Complete Illuminated Books

By: David Bindman (Introduction by), Thames & Hudson

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Paperback | 27 November 2000 | Edition Number 1

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In his Illuminated Books, William Blake combined text and imagery on a single page in a way that had not been done since the Middle Ages. For Blake, religion and politics, intellect and emotion, mind and body were both unified and in conflict with each other: his work is expressive of his personal mythology, and his methods of conveying it were integral to its meaning. There is no comparison with reading books such as Jerusalem, America, and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in Blake's own medium, infused with his sublime and exhilarating colors. Tiny figures and forms dance among the lines of the text, flames appear to burn up the page, and dense passages of Biblical-sounding text are brought to a jarring halt by startling images of death, destruction, and liberation. Blake's hope that his books would obtain wide circulation was unfulfilled: some exist only in unique copies and none was printed in more than very small numbers. Now, for the first time, the plates from the William Blake Trust's Collected Edition have been brought together in a single volume, with transcripts of the texts and an introduction by the noted scholar David Bindman.

Includes: Jerusalem; Songs of Innocence and of Experience; All Religions are One; There is No Natural Religion; The Book of Thel; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Visions of the Daughters of Albion; America a Prophecy; Europe a Prophecy; The Song of Los Milton a Poem; The Ghost of Abel; On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil; Laocoon; The First Book of Urizen; The Book of Ahania; The Book of Los.

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Blake was not just a poet; nor was he just a book publisher. He was also an artist who developed a unique method of etching in relief so that text and illustration could be mixed on the page. Each book of his poetry was unique, illustrated with his brilliantly distinctive pictures, varying slightly in colour, page order, and sometimes even text. The processes were laborious but the results magical, and in this collection of the complete texts, the reproductions do real justice to the beauty of the original pages. For any Blake fans, at last this is an affordable way to own high-quality reproductions of his beautiful illustrations, and to see his poems in the contexts he placed them. (Kirkus UK)

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Foreword	p. 6
Introduction	p. 7
Looking Further into Blake	p. 12
A Chronology of Blake and his Times	p. 13
The Illuminated Books
All Religions are One	p. 18
There is No Natural Religion (c. 1794)	p. 28
There is No Natural Religion (c. 1795)	p. 31
Songs of Innocence and of Experience	p. 43
The Book of Thel	p. 98
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell	p. 107
The Gates of Paradise	p. 135
Visions of the Daughters of Albion	p. 142
America a Prophecy	p. 154
Europe a Prophecy	p. 174
The Song of Los	p. 194
The First Book of Urizen	p. 203
The Book of Ahania	p. 232
The Book of Los	p. 240
Milton a Poem	p. 246
Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion	p. 298
The Ghost of Abel	p. 400
On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil	p. 402
Laocoon	p. 403
Transcripts of Blake's Texts
Songs of Innocence and of Experience	p. 406
The Book of Thel	p. 411
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell	p. 412
The Gates of Paradise	p. 417
Visions of the Daughters of Albion	p. 417
America a Prophecy	p. 419
Europe a Prophecy	p. 422
The Song of Los	p. 424
The First Book of Urizen	p. 426
The Book of Ahania	p. 429
The Book of Los	p. 430
Milton a Poem	p. 431
Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion	p. 297
The Ghost of Abel	p. 479
On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil	p. 479
Laocoon	p. 479
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