Jerusalem (William Blake's Illustrated Edi...

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William Blake's Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion is the culminating achievement of his prophetic books, fusing poetry, engraving and visual symbolism into a single illuminated art. Across its dense mythic narrative, Albion, Jerusalem and Los enact a drama of national fall and spiritual regeneration, opposing mechanistic reason with imaginative forgiveness. Its biblical cadences, compressed allegory and visionary typography place it beside Miltonic epic and Romantic apocalypse, yet its handmade pages remain radically singular. Blake (1757-1827), poet, painter, engraver and religious dissenter, lived largely outside the institutions that governed British taste. Trained as an artisan and immersed in London's political and spiritual ferment, he responded to revolution, industrialization and the authority of church and state with a private mythology of liberation. Jerusalem distills decades of his labor in illuminated printing and his conviction that art could awaken the divine human form. Readers seeking not a conventional narrative but a demanding encounter with prophetic art will find Jerusalem indispensable. It rewards slow reading, visual attention and rereading, offering one of English literature's most audacious meditations on imagination, community and redemption.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788028371968
ISBN-10:	8028371965
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Blake, William
Hersteller:	Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	William Blake
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.05.2024
Gewicht:	0,36 kg