Europe A Prophecy (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)

By William Blake

This carefully crafted ebook: "Europe A Prophecy (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Blake's illuminated books, produced from 1783-1795, are remarkable examples of complex syntheses: of form - poetry and painting; and of subject - the real with the mythical. Blake created his own mythological creations to populate his poems and paintings: concepts and ideas became personified into universal representations. He used these mythological characters to explain and act out his singular view of history. Blake divided the nature of man into four personified elements: "Los, the imagination and eventual source of redemption; Urizen, the reason and vengeful Jehovah of the Old Testament as opposed to the merciful Christ of the New; Luvah, the senses; and Tharmas, the emotions". Each of these characters has an emanation, or female "offshoot", who is commonly a negative character attempting to dominate her male counterpart. "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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: e-artnow
• Release date: Jul 10, 2013
• ISBN: 4064066374822

William Blake

William Blake was born in London in 1757. He was apprenticed to a master engraver and then studied at the Royal Academy under the guidance of Joshua Reynolds. In 1789 he engraved and published Songs of Innocence and the contrasting Songs of Experience came later in 1794. A poet, painter and printmaker of great originality and imagination, his work was largely unrecognized during his lifetime and he struggled to make a living. Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. He died in 1827.

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William Blake

Europe A Prophecy

(Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)

e-artnow, 2021

EAN 4064066374822

Table of Contents

Preludium

A Prophecy

Five windows light the cavern’d Man; thro’ one he breathes the air; 

Thro’ one, hears music of the spheres; thro’ one, the eternal vine 

Flourishes, that he may recieve the grapes; thro’ one can look.

And see small portions of the eternal world that ever groweth; 

Thro’ one, himself pass out what time he please, but he will not; 

For stolen joys are sweet, & bread eaten in secret pleasant.

So sang a Fairy mocking as he sat on a streak’d Tulip, 

Thinking