BLAKE WILLIAM

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Βρισκόμαστε στα παραδείσια λαγκάδια του Αρ, έναν τόπο φανταστικό που κατοικείται από Μνε Σεραφείμ. Ο ήλιος μόλις έχει ανατείλει και οι κόρες των Μνε Σεραφείμ, τρέχουν να βοσκήσουν τα κοπάδια τους. Όμως η μικρή Θελ, ένα αγνό και παρθένο πλάσμα, είναι πολύ ανήσυχη. Νιώθει πως κάτι πρέπει να κάνει. Δεν ξέρει τι ακριβώς και φοβάται. Δεν πηγαίνει στη βοσκή με το κοπάδι της, αλλά κατεβαίνει στην όχθη του ποταμού Αδωνά. Το βιβλίο της Θελ, αν και από τους περισσότερους ειδικούς θεωρείται ακόμη ένα από τα προφητικά βιβλία του Μπλαίηκ, είναι στην ο...
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(P/B) THE ILLUMINATED BOOKS OF WILLIAM BLAKE (VOLUME 2)
The core of William Blake's vision, his greatness as one of the British Romantics, is most fully expressed in his Illuminated Books, masterworks of art and text intertwined and mutually enriching. In 1949 the William Blake Trust was founded to bring these rare, in some cases unique, works to a wider general audience through the publication of superbly produced facsimiles of each book. By the late 1980's these facsimiles had themselves become rare books. The Trust accordingly resolved to initiate a collected edition that would publish accur...
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ΟΙ ΓΑΜΟΙ ΤΟΥ ΟΥΡΑΝΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΚΟΛΑΣΗΣ (ΧΑΡΤΟΔΕΤΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ)
Ο WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827), ο οραματιστής ποιητής που κάποτε χλευάστηκε ως παράφρων και σήμερα τιμάται ως μεγαλοφυΐα, συγκαταλέγεται ανάμεσα στους μείζονες ποιητές της αγγλικής λογοτεχνίας. Κοινή είναι η διαπίστωση των μελετητών της ποίησής του, πως το αξιόλογο έργο του, δημιουργία και απεικόνιση ταυτόχρονα ενός πολύπλευρου μυθολογικού συστήματος, συνιστά ένα πρώτης τάξεως επίτευγμα. Αντιμετωπίζοντας με το αντισυμβατικό του βλέμμα θέματα τόσο ιερά και απαραβίαστα όσο η θρησκεία, η ηθική, η τέχνη και η πολιτική, κοινωνικός επαναστάτης και ...
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(H/B) SEEN IN MY VISIONS
In 1809 William Blake was an obscure poet and engraver with little or no reputation. When he held an exhibition of his work in a private house in Soho in the west end of London it was not a success; the only review in the press was extremely unfavourable and few of the public came. One of those who did was the writer Charles Lamb, who later reserved special praise for the catalogue that accompanied the show, describing it as mystical and full of visions. The catalogue reveals much about the ambition of the man who was to become one of the ...
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(H/B) POETICAL SKETCHES

(P/B) SELECTED POETRY
William Blake (1757-1827) was a poet of striking originality, whose poetic world of myth and mysticism continues to fascinate. By turns a haunting lyricist, an apocalyptic visionary, and an unorthodox thinker, Blake was for years ignored or derided. Sustained by his belief in the artistic imagination, he drafted poetry, prose visions, and epigrams, and manufactured beautiful illustrated volumes of his lyrics and verse narratives. Towards the end of his life, Blake's unique and irreducible talent was recognized by a group of younger artist...
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BLAKE: SELECTED VERSE

(P/B) THE ILLUMINATED BOOKS OF WILLIAM BLAKE (VOLUME 6)
The last volumes in the series of William Blake's Illuminated Books reveal the writer and artist as a prophet driven by a sense of apocalyptic urgency. Blake conceived and executed The Continental Prophecies and The Urizen Books in the early 1790s, capturing the intellectual and spiritual turmoil of the American and French revolutions. Here, for the first time, the general reader will encounter Blake's most intense vision in reproductions that do justice to the originals, accompanied by texts, comprehensive notes and commentaries, and deta...
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(H/B) BLAKE: THE COMPLETE POETRY AND PROSE

(P/B) THE ILLUMINATED BOOKS OF WILLIAM BLAKE (VOLUME 5)
The core of William Blake's vision, his greatness as one of the British Romantics, is most fully expressed in his Illuminated Books, masterworks of art and text intertwined and mutually enriching. Made possible by recent advances in printing and reproduction technology, the publication of new editions of Jerusalem and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1991 was a major publishing event. Now these two volumes are followed by The Early Illuminated Books and Milton, A Poem. The books in both volumes are reproduced from the best available...
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(P/B) THE ILLUMINATED BOOKS OF WILLIAM BLAKE (VOLUME 4)
The last volumes in the series of William Blake's Illuminated Books reveal the writer and artist as a prophet driven by a sense of apocalyptic urgency. Blake conceived and executed The Continental Prophecies and The Urizen Books in the early 1790s, capturing the intellectual and spiritual turmoil of the American and French revolutions. Here, for the first time, the general reader will encounter Blake's most intense vision in reproductions that do justice to the originals, accompanied by texts, comprehensive notes and commentaries, and deta...
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(P/B) THE ILLUMINATED BOOKS OF WILLIAM BLAKE (VOLUME 1)
The nature of William Blake's genius and of his art is most completely expressed in his Illuminated books. In order to give full and free expression to his vision Blake invented a method of printing that enabled him to create works in which words and images combine to form pages uniquely rich in content and beautiful in form. It is only through the pages as originally conceived and published by the poet himself that Blake's meaning can be fully experienced. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE ILLUMINATED BOOKS OF WILLIAM BLAKE (VOLUME 3)
The core of William Blake's vision, his greatness as one of the British Romantics, is most fully expressed in his Illuminated Books, masterworks of art and text intertwined and mutually enriching. Made possible by recent advances in printing and reproduction technology, the publication of new editions of Jerusalem and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1991 was a major publishing event. Now these two volumes are followed by The Early Illuminated Books and Milton, A Poem. The books in both volumes are reproduced from the best available...
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