Author: William Blake
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048614710X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
116 watercolors illustrate 13 best-loved poems by Thomas Gray, including "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" and "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat." First inexpensive full-color reproduction, with complete text of poems.
Blake's Water-Colours for the Poems of Thomas Gray
Author: William Blake
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048614710X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
116 watercolors illustrate 13 best-loved poems by Thomas Gray, including "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" and "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat." First inexpensive full-color reproduction, with complete text of poems.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048614710X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
116 watercolors illustrate 13 best-loved poems by Thomas Gray, including "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" and "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat." First inexpensive full-color reproduction, with complete text of poems.
Great British Watercolors
Author: Matthew Hargraves
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300116586
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Paul Mellon (1907--1999) assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. In his memoirs he wrote of their “beauty and freshness… their immediacy and sureness of technique, their comprehensiveness of subject matter, their vital qualities, their Englishness.” This catalogue celebrating the centenary of Mellon's birth features eighty-eight outstanding watercolors from the fifty thousand works of art on paper with which he endowed the Yale Center for British Art. The selection spans the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-18th century to its apogee in the mid-19th. These works highlight the diversity of British watercolors, showcasing both landscape and figurative works by some of the principal artists working in the medium, including Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, and J. M.W. Turner.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300116586
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Paul Mellon (1907--1999) assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. In his memoirs he wrote of their “beauty and freshness… their immediacy and sureness of technique, their comprehensiveness of subject matter, their vital qualities, their Englishness.” This catalogue celebrating the centenary of Mellon's birth features eighty-eight outstanding watercolors from the fifty thousand works of art on paper with which he endowed the Yale Center for British Art. The selection spans the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-18th century to its apogee in the mid-19th. These works highlight the diversity of British watercolors, showcasing both landscape and figurative works by some of the principal artists working in the medium, including Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, and J. M.W. Turner.
Again to the Life of Eternity
Author: Frank A. Vaughan
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780945636748
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
"This work postulates that the set of 116 designs by William Blake, illustrated herein, is not a series of individual responses to the pieces of text they accompany, nor is it a series of responses to the individual poems of Thomas Gray. The designs are also more than illustrations, or corrections, of Gray's speakers or of Gray himself. In the Gray designs, Blake was using the opportunity given him by John and Ann Flaxman in 1797 to explore and explain visually the reformist malaise in the reactionary nineties when the general economic well-being and optimism had been replaced by the effects of war and fear. For Blake, the collapse into the later 1790s is the failure of the imaginative will to sustain the impetus that the American and French Revolutions had begun." "Blake saw several causes for this failure of will and created a set of designs rich in allusions and dense with visual conventions. These visual topoi are personal, topical, classical, biblical, and literary." "Thus, there is a need for a study of the Gray designs that sees them as they are: a unity rich with visual conventions partaking of Blake's revolutionary pattern of development and desire to reshape in specific ways the mind of his audience."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780945636748
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
"This work postulates that the set of 116 designs by William Blake, illustrated herein, is not a series of individual responses to the pieces of text they accompany, nor is it a series of responses to the individual poems of Thomas Gray. The designs are also more than illustrations, or corrections, of Gray's speakers or of Gray himself. In the Gray designs, Blake was using the opportunity given him by John and Ann Flaxman in 1797 to explore and explain visually the reformist malaise in the reactionary nineties when the general economic well-being and optimism had been replaced by the effects of war and fear. For Blake, the collapse into the later 1790s is the failure of the imaginative will to sustain the impetus that the American and French Revolutions had begun." "Blake saw several causes for this failure of will and created a set of designs rich in allusions and dense with visual conventions. These visual topoi are personal, topical, classical, biblical, and literary." "Thus, there is a need for a study of the Gray designs that sees them as they are: a unity rich with visual conventions partaking of Blake's revolutionary pattern of development and desire to reshape in specific ways the mind of his audience."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
English Writers
Author: B. A. Sheen
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590332603
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
English Writers - A Bibliography with Vignettes
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590332603
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
English Writers - A Bibliography with Vignettes
Water-colours Illustrating the Poems of Thomas Gray
Author: William Blake
Publisher: Ohara Publications
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher: Ohara Publications
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
William Blake and the Myths of Britain
Author: J. Whittaker
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230372104
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
William Blake and the Myths of Britain is the first full-length study of Blake's use of British mythology and history. From Atlantis to the Deists of the Napoleonic Wars, this book addresses why the eighteenth century saw a revival of interest in the legends of the British Isles and how Blake applied these in his extraordinary prophetic histories of the giant Albion, revitalising myths of the Druids and Joseph of Arimathea bringing Christ to Albion.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230372104
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
William Blake and the Myths of Britain is the first full-length study of Blake's use of British mythology and history. From Atlantis to the Deists of the Napoleonic Wars, this book addresses why the eighteenth century saw a revival of interest in the legends of the British Isles and how Blake applied these in his extraordinary prophetic histories of the giant Albion, revitalising myths of the Druids and Joseph of Arimathea bringing Christ to Albion.
Fire in the Sky
Author: Roberta J. M. Olson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521663595
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
An accessible and interesting presentation of the diverse range of historical material about comets.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521663595
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
An accessible and interesting presentation of the diverse range of historical material about comets.
Romanticism and Illustration
Author: Ian Haywood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108425712
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Explores a vital aspect of British Romanticism, the role of illustration in Romantic-era literary texts and visual culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108425712
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Explores a vital aspect of British Romanticism, the role of illustration in Romantic-era literary texts and visual culture.
Blake's Night Thoughts
Author: J. Tambling
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230505619
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and Blanchot's writings in the twentieth. Taking 'night' as the breakdown of rational progressive thought and of thought based on concepts of identity, the book reads the lyric poetry, some Prophetic works, including a chapter on The Four Zoas , the illustrations to Young, and Dante, and look's at Blake's writing of madness.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230505619
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and Blanchot's writings in the twentieth. Taking 'night' as the breakdown of rational progressive thought and of thought based on concepts of identity, the book reads the lyric poetry, some Prophetic works, including a chapter on The Four Zoas , the illustrations to Young, and Dante, and look's at Blake's writing of madness.
The Cambridge Companion to William Blake
Author: Morris Eaves
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494451
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Poet, painter, and engraver William Blake died in 1827 in obscure poverty with few admirers. The attention paid today to his remarkable poems, prints, and paintings would have astonished his contemporaries. Admired for his defiant, uncompromising creativity, he has become one of the most anthologized and studied writers in English and one of the most studied and collected British artists. His urge to cast words and images into masterpieces of revelation has left us with complex, forceful, extravagant, some times bizarre works of written and visual art that rank among the greatest challenges to plain understanding ever created. This Companion aims to provide guidance to Blake's work in fresh and readable introductions: biographical, literary, art historical, political, religious, and bibliographical. Together with a chronology, guides to further reading, and glossary of terms, they identify the key points of departure into Blake's multifarious world and work.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494451
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Poet, painter, and engraver William Blake died in 1827 in obscure poverty with few admirers. The attention paid today to his remarkable poems, prints, and paintings would have astonished his contemporaries. Admired for his defiant, uncompromising creativity, he has become one of the most anthologized and studied writers in English and one of the most studied and collected British artists. His urge to cast words and images into masterpieces of revelation has left us with complex, forceful, extravagant, some times bizarre works of written and visual art that rank among the greatest challenges to plain understanding ever created. This Companion aims to provide guidance to Blake's work in fresh and readable introductions: biographical, literary, art historical, political, religious, and bibliographical. Together with a chronology, guides to further reading, and glossary of terms, they identify the key points of departure into Blake's multifarious world and work.