William Blake Complete Illuminated Books: The Complete Illuminated Books

"If you know Blake's poems you're getting only half—or rather none of—the picture."—The New York Times

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 compariso...