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    <body><![CDATA[PRETTY pictures.  And wonderful pictures.  And awful pictures.  I mean that in the clearest origin of the words:  awe full and wonder full, ok?  For my personal study of how I am not able to draw, or perhaps might alter what I have done already, like a touchstone, since it's impossible to imitate; t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8001404">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A delectable book in terms of design and illustration. Blake still had the need of drawing from his poem's scenes. His was a case like that of Rossetti, who also paint and wrote on a same theme. I still wonder which thing was first. I agree with some comentaries, that this is not exactly a book to a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57004639">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[To really understand Blake you have to read it with the original illuminations. Get your hands on the largest format you can find. I visited the NYC Library almost everyday for almost a year as they turned one page a day of an original. Great poetry, great art.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[IF you want to read Blake, by all means read the illuminated versions. And then keep Erdman's text on hand for difficult to read passages, the glossary and annotations.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this was pretty much ruined for me by the worst class ever. i'll try to read it later, but right now it just makes me wanna vom.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In his Illuminated Books, William Blake combined text and imagery on a single page in a way that had not been done since the Middle Ages. For Blake, religion and politics, intellect and emotion, mind and body were both unified and in conflict with each other: his work is expressive of his personal mythology, and his methods of conveying it were integral to its meaning. There is no comparison with reading books such as <em>Jerusalem, America</em>, and <em>Songs of Innocence and of Experience</em> in Blake's own medium, infused with his sublime and exhilarating colors. Tiny figures and forms dance among the lines of the text, flames appear to burn up the page, and dense passages of Biblical-sounding text are brought to a jarring halt by startling images of death, destruction, and liberation. Blake's hope that his books would obtain wide circulation was unfulfilled: some exist only in unique copies and none was printed in more than very small numbers. Now, for the first time, the plates from the William Blake Trust's Collected Edition have been brought together in a single volume, with transcripts of the texts and an introduction by the noted scholar David Bindman. A major retrospective exhibition of Blake's work can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (March-June 2001). 400 color illustrations.    <p>Includes:<br/>  <em>Jerusalem<br/>  Songs of Innocence and of Experience<br/>  All Religions are One<br/>  There is No Natural Religion<br/>  The Book of Thel <br/>  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell<br/>  Visions of the Daughters of Albion<br/>  America a Prophecy <br/>  Europe a Prophecy<br/>  The Song of Los<br/>  Milton a Poem <br/>  The Ghost of Abel<br/>  On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil<br/>  Laocoon <br/>  The First Book of Urizen<br/>  The Book of Ahania<br/>  The Book of Los</em></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hope to one day understand this. ]]></body>
    
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