- Taschenbuch: 532 Seiten
- Verlag: Yale Univ Pr; Auflage: New edition (11. April 2003)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0300100302
- ISBN-13: 978-0300100303
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,4 x 15,6 x 3,3 cm
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- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 413.247 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Though William Blake never traveled more than 60 miles from London, his was an intellectually complex life. Bentley (English, Univ. of Toronto) offers a comprehensive mapping of the life of both Blake and his wife, Catherine Boucher. Blake was born in 1757 and grew up in the language of radical religious dissent. His fundamentals of faith and growing genius impelled him to a life outside of popular political and social conventions. Enthusiastically exulting in the power of the spirit, Blake eventually created a new gospel of art that was otherworldly and essentially spiritual. Bentley traces Blake from his natal landscape, youth, marriage, and apprenticeship through to his later years as a working engraver, poet, and radical visionary. Bentley is academic and thorough, and this is more of a straight biography than an analysis. Readers will still want to read Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry (1947). With lovely illustrations and two comprehensive appendixes; for libraries committed to a full reference. Scott Hightower, Fordham Univ., New York
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"Everyone who loves Blake will be grateful to have, at last, a thoroughly reliable, fully documented and closely detailed life of him. It is an unlooked-for bonus that the book is beautifully designed." Grevel Lindop, Times Literary Supplement "Bentley affectionately and authoritatively renders the life of the artist who's now considered less madman than visionary. Via Blake's writings and drawings, records of his intimates, and thorough treatments of artworks, Bentley evokes something of the whole man - an eccentric genius who saw the world as a product of personal imagination." Publishers Weekly "Certain to become the standard biography of Blake." Choice "A masterful monument having some of the energy and irresistible authority of Blake himself." Tom D'Evelyn, The Providence Sunday Journal "A splendid account and a fitting capstone to Bentley's lifetime of Blake scholarship." FIRST THINGS
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William Blake's Christian life began in grandeur and glory when he was christened at the noble marble baptismal font in the majestic new parish church of St James's, Westminster. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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William Blake's Christian life began in grandeur and glory when he was christened at the noble marble baptismal font in the majestic new parish church of St James's, Westminster. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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The Stranger from Paradise is easily the best biography of William Blake that I've seen so far. It is a book that has true respect for Blake and tries to understand (and explain) him, without treating him as some kind of god or (much worse) portraying him as a sex-obsessed madman. The author does not attempt to use Blake to push some kind of mystical agenda (as some have done), nor does he view him with the cynical and disgusting eye that proclaims all men of genius to be fools.
Finally somebody who can take Blake seriously.
It is well-researched and well-written; definitely a good book to read for anyone who is interested in one of the greatest artists this world has ever seen.
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Einfach alles zum Leben und Werk von William Blake ist hier zu finden. Neben allerlei Bildern und Auszügen von seinen Werken auch jede Menge Hintergrundwissen. Genial!
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25. Juni 2001
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The scholarship that works through this book is obviously one of love and devotion of many many years. Bentley's sorting out of events in Blake's life is amazingly well researched - it is the first Blake biography that does not have that usual blur of focus that leaves one more mystified than enlightened. Blake's contemporaries, friends, enemies, patrons, etc. are all given voice through their own extant letters, articles . . - this contextualizes him beautifully and clears the field of critical debris that has grown out over the centuries. In fact, it is Bentley's sober critical eye (of fairness) which is so refreshing - his sense of balance is impeccable. Only a lifetime lover of Blake could hit so consistently true tones. But if you're arriving to this book looking for critical scholarship of the work and myth than you're walking through the wrong door. This book is not about the minutae of the work (see Northrop Frye for that) - it assumes already that one is also a lover and "understander" of the work. This book is about the man - written and informed, of course, by the man's work, but is a book about Blake's life - not a treatise on Urthona. Yes, I recommend this book. Walk on in and stroll around.
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Extraordinary and Moving
9. Mai 2008
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A terrific book. This is the best biography of Blake that I know of, and is also one of the most encouraging books I have read in years. Bentley sews together contemporary reports, journals from Blake's friends, and Blake's poems and drawings themselves to form a mysterious--although moving--picture of the man. Blake, upon moving back to the Thames, one day opened his window and reported that he saw the filthy river moving along 'like a gold bar.' From his early years, he claimed to have visions of fairies and angels, and later in life even was able to see William Wallace and Satan (the sketches are included in the book). I know of nothing like Blake, and would give this outstanding biography of him six stars.
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5. August 2007
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This is a very good, straight-forward biography of a mysterious man. Anyone curious about Blake should read it. People who love Blake will still love him, their love enhanced by the very clear context given to the events of his life. Of the visions that are of course the oddest thing about Blake, at least to the vast majority of us who don't have them, the author is neutral. You can't really know. I'm personally for rather than against visionaries even if they are delusional, just because this is indeed the age of fiberglass. Someone said of Blake that he was cracked, but the Light came through the crack. I like to believe he was visited by Milton, Michaelangelo and William Wallace, etc., and that he saw trees full of angels. At the same time, there is a question about the nature of inspiration. Once established, Blake's style in poetry and painting never changed much, only the subjects changed: so the various spirits did nothing in the way of altering his method, nor did they alter his views much, though he seems to have mellowed somewhat. He seems to have been a channel for one Spirit who changed form. There are other artists who seem to me to have represented the world beyond in a more profound way: Bach, Milton, Michaelangelo, Wordsworth for example. And of course, Shakespeare seems to have had a 100 people's combined understanding of how life is. And there are artists, more like us, who seemed to have developed as life progressed.
Still, he was one of the men who lived for and frequently in the electric blessing that changes everything, that power, gift, the angels, like Cupid, seem to bestow as they choose. Blake was a vehicle.
He was the great Outsider artist. He was a Hero of poor England. Thank God for Blake who said, "I live in a hole here, but God has a beautiful mansion for me elsewhere." He was authentic, poor and a real man. Everyone should know how he died singing Hallelujahs and hymns of praise.
Still, he was one of the men who lived for and frequently in the electric blessing that changes everything, that power, gift, the angels, like Cupid, seem to bestow as they choose. Blake was a vehicle.
He was the great Outsider artist. He was a Hero of poor England. Thank God for Blake who said, "I live in a hole here, but God has a beautiful mansion for me elsewhere." He was authentic, poor and a real man. Everyone should know how he died singing Hallelujahs and hymns of praise.
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