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The critically acclaimed biographer of Dickens and Eliot provides an incisive portrait of William Blake that reassesses the true nature of the life and art of the enigmatic poet, painter, and engraver and places Blake and his unique, mystical art within the context of eighteenth-century thought.
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"Marvellous...deeply moving and radiant with detail... What makes Ackroyd so exceptional among biographers is the range and beauty of his knowledge.This is a book to go out and buy at once" (Observer)
"Exhilarating...has all the hypnotic power and psychological intensity of a dream-fiction" (Daily Telegraph)
"Glowing and engaged...will send many readers back to the poems enriched" (John Carey Sunday Times)
"Taut, lucid and intelligent...will surely stand as a classic of the genre" (Harpers & Queen)
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'A marvellous work of the imagination...enthralling' Ruth Rendell
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 067940967X
- ISBN 13 9780679409670
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages399
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