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• Sommaire; I. Une Révélation précoce; Enfance, 1757-1771; Apprentissage et mariage, 1771-1787; Les Poèmes lyriques; II. Visions poétiques; Poland Street et les premières prophéties, 1787-1792; Lambeth; Les Idées de Blake sur l'art; À Felpham avec Hayley, 1800-1803; III. Le Crépuscule d'un prophète; Milton et Jérusalem; Encore Londres, 1804-1809; 1810-1818; Disciples et décès; Blake et le Sublime; Notes; Bibliographie; Liste des illustrations.

Figure majeure du mouvement romantique, le britannique William Blake (1757-1827) fut à la fois peintre, dessinateur, graveur et poète. L'artiste s'attachant à illustrer lui-même son OEuvre littéraire, les textes de Blake se développent suivant les lignes de ses gravures et dessins hallucinés, et deviennent, dès lors, de véritables enluminures. Inspiré des thèmes bibliques et prophétiques (Proverbes de l'Enfer, L'Évangile éternel, Les Portes du Paradis, etc.), l'art de Blake mélange subtilement la modernité de son époque et de la révolution romantique avec le classicisme des thèmes qu'il explor.

• pt. I. The temple of rationalism
• pt. II. Destroying the temple
• rending the veil
• pt. III. Rebuilding the temple.

Starting with Locke's philosophy of language, which turns words into bricks and uses them to build a rigid system of science and morality, this book is a response to Blake's un-Lockian thought through an analysis of his linguistic practices. It is an attempt to understand why Blake says what he says the way he does. While being a study of Blake's poetics, the book is at the same time a poetic study that never attempts to translate poetry into prose. It reads like a narrative, telling of an effort to build, an attempt to destroy, and then rebuild again. Primarily aimed at Blake readers, it will also interest those interested in Enlightenment and Romanticism, as well as students of art, religion or philosophy. And, since Blake's criticism of Locke is in fact Blake's criticism of the main assumptions of modernity, the book should prove a stimulating experience to all those who do not mind looking at the reality from some critical distance.
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This is the most accessible introduction available to one of the greatest British artists. The art of William Blake unites visionary simplicity with profound complexity of thought. In this illuminating new study, illustrated throughout in colour, Raymond Lister provides an engaging and lucid approach to Blake's paintings, fully alive to their infinite power of suggestion and refreshingly unfettered by polemic. The biographical introduction, making extensive use of Blake's writings and of contemporary accounts of him, traces the vicissitudes of this absolutely individual artist's life; his very human nature is revealed, no less than his boundless creative energies. The seventy-five colour plates represent the whole span of Blake's working life and all the major areas of his art: his biblical pictures, his allegorical subjects and his illuminated books, which he wrote, engraved and decorated himself. The detailed commentary to each plate explores as much of his symbolism as is readily comprehensible, and explains his often idiosyncratic techniques.
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• [1] Text.
• [2] Plates.

• America, a prophecy : a check-list of secondary materials in English / compiled by Roger R. Easson
• America, a prophecy / printed by William Blake.