Author: David C. SuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. SuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
William Blake in the Desolate Market
Author: G.E. Bentley JrPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773581677
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Experience taught William Blake that "Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy." His brilliant achievements as a poet, painter, and engraver brought him public notice, but little income. William Blake in the Desolate Market records how Blake, the most original of all the major English poets, earned his living. G.E. Bentley Jr, the dean of Blake scholars, details the poet's occupations as a commercial engraver, print-seller, teacher, copperplate printer, painter, publisher, and vendor of his own books. In his early career as a commercial engraver, Blake was modestly prosperous, but thereafter his fortunes declined. For his most ambitious commercial designs, he made hundreds of folio designs and scores of engravings, but was paid scarcely more than twenty pounds for two or three years' work. His invention of illuminated printing lost money, and many of his greatest works, such as Jerusalem, were left unsold at his death. He came to believe that his "business is not to gather gold, but to make glorious shapes." William Blake in the Desolate Market is an investigation of Blake's labours to support himself by his arts. The changing prices of his works, his costs and receipts, as well as his patrons and employers are expertly gathered and displayed to show the material side of the artistic career in Britain's Romantic period.
Blake Records
Author: Gerald Eades Bentley (Jr.)Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Complete Writings
Author: William BlakePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Contains almost all Blake's substantive variants with the exception of some in the exceptionally complex manuscript of Vala, or the Four Zoas.
The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
Author: The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
Author: The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
Author: Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Blake
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
An illustrated quarterly.