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The Illuminated Blake: William Blake's Complete Illuminated Works with a Plate-by-Plate Commentary
Monumental study, compiled and annotated by one of world's foremost Blake scholars, meticulously reproduces poet/artist's singular attempt to achieve the perfect union of painting and poetry. Erudite, penetrating analysis of such Blakean masterpieces as The Book of Thel, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Song of Los, other works.
Paperback, 416 pages
Published
September 11th 1992
by Dover Publications
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Erdman's analysis of each plate of illustration or text is superb, but the book itself is in black and white only, a shame because Blake was a wonderful colorist. Furthermore, the plates are qute small. However, all is not lost because the large reproductions of Blake's works (which I've also reviewed) are in color and you can compare these larger colored plates with Erdman's analyses. These are not, to me, booksI can ever say I'm done reading, as I take in no more than a few plates at a sittin...more
Very useful, though possibly outdated, black and white edition of Blake's complete illuminated works. Erdman's brief notes on every plate are still useful.
Blake had some of the most remarkable ideas on the nature of good and evil and an uncanny level of understanding of them that are expressed both beautifully and horrifically in his art and prose.
I forgot how good he was.
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