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Language: English
Published by Random House UK, 1995
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Blake : A Biography
- Author
- Ackroyd, Peter
- Publisher
- Random House UK
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1856192784
- ISBN 13
- 9781856192781
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 1.817 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
A biography of William Blake. Poet, painter, engraver, visionary, his was a radical spirit fired by genius. The book presents Blake in the context of his period: we see him caught up in the Gordon Riots, excited by the French Revolution and attracted by various forms of spiritual radicalism and sexual magic. Peter Ackroyd has also written "Dickens", a biography of Charles Dickens.
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Review
"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)
"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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