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The Early Illuminated Books - All Religions Are One/There Is No Natural Religion/The Book of Thel/The Marriage of Heaven and Hell/Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Blake's Illuminated Books - Volume 3)

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Engels

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9781854371195

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London : The William Blake Trust / The Tate Gallery, 1993

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150,00(Excl. verzendkosten)

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Gebonden, linnen band met stofomslag. 286 pp. In uitstekende staat

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All Religions are One is a series of philosophical aphorisms by William Blake, written in 1788. Following on from his initial experiments with relief etching in the non-textual The Approach of Doom (1787), All Religions are One and There is No Natural Religion represent Blake's first successful attempt to combine image and text via relief etching, and are thus the earliest of his illuminated manuscripts. As such, they serve as a significant milestone in Blake's career; as Peter Ackroyd points out, "his newly invented form now changed the nature of his expression. It had enlarged his range; with relief etching, the words inscribed like those of God upon the tables of law, Blake could acquire a new role."

The Book of Thel is a poem by William Blake, dated 1789 and probably composed in the period 1788 to 1790. It is illustrated by his own plates, and compared to his later prophetic books is relatively short and easier to understand. The metre is a fourteen-syllable line. It was preceded by Tiriel, which Blake left in manuscript. A few lines from Tiriel were incorporated into The Book of Thel. Most of the poem is in unrhymed verse.
This book consists of eight plates executed in illuminated printing. Sixteen copies of the original print of 1789–1793 are known. Three copies bearing a watermark of 1815 are more elaborately colored than the others.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a book by the English poet and printmaker William Blake. It is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs. Like his other books, it was published as printed sheets from etched plates containing prose, poetry, and illustrations. The plates were then coloured by Blake and his wife Catherine.

It opens with an introduction of a short poem entitled "Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden'd air".

William Blake claims that John Milton was a true poet and his epic poem Paradise Lost was "of the Devil's party without knowing it". He also claims that Milton's Satan was truly his Messiah.[2]

The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical ferment and political conflict during the French Revolution. The title is an ironic reference to Emanuel Swedenborg's theological work Heaven and Hell, published in Latin 33 years earlier. Swedenborg is directly cited and criticised by Blake in several places in the Marriage. Though Blake was influenced by his grand and mystical cosmic conception, Swedenborg's conventional moral strictures and his Manichaean view of good and evil led Blake to express a deliberately depolarised and unified vision of the cosmos in which the material world and physical desire are equally part of the divine order; hence, a marriage of heaven and hell. The book is written in prose, except for the opening "Argument" and the "Song of Liberty". The book describes the poet's visit to Hell, a device adopted by Blake from Dante's Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost.
Visions of the Daughters of Albion is a 1793 poem by William Blake, produced as a book with his own illustrations. It is a short and early example of his prophetic books, and a sequel of sorts to The Book of Thel.
Plot
The central narrative is of the female character Oothoon, called the "soft soul of America", and of her sexual experience. S. Foster Damon (A Blake Dictionary) suggested that Blake had been influenced by Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792.
Oothoon is in love with Theotormon, who represents the chaste man, filled with a false sense of righteousness. Oothoon desires Theotormon but is suddenly, violently raped by Bromion. After Oothoon is raped neither Bromion nor Theotormon want anything to do with her.
(Wikipedia)
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Blake, William ; Morris Eaves, Joseph Viscomi, Robert N. Essick (Edited, introductions and notes) ; David Bindman (General editor) - The Early Illuminated Books - All Religions Are One/There Is No Natural Religion/The Book of Thel/The Marriage of Heaven and Hell/Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Blake's Illuminated Books - Volume 3)
Blake, William ; Morris Eaves, Joseph Viscomi, Robert N. Essick (Edited, introductions and notes) ; David Bindman (General editor) - The Early Illuminated Books - All Religions Are One/There Is No Natural Religion/The Book of Thel/The Marriage of Heaven and Hell/Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Blake's Illuminated Books - Volume 3)
Blake, William ; Morris Eaves, Joseph Viscomi, Robert N. Essick (Edited, introductions and notes) ; David Bindman (General editor) - The Early Illuminated Books - All Religions Are One/There Is No Natural Religion/The Book of Thel/The Marriage of Heaven and Hell/Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Blake's Illuminated Books - Volume 3)
Blake, William ; Morris Eaves, Joseph Viscomi, Robert N. Essick (Edited, introductions and notes) ; David Bindman (General editor) - The Early Illuminated Books - All Religions Are One/There Is No Natural Religion/The Book of Thel/The Marriage of Heaven and Hell/Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Blake's Illuminated Books - Volume 3)
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