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Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry
By (Author) W.J.T. Mitchell
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
8th April 2019
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
821.7
Paperback
312
Width 191mm, Height 235mm
Can poem and picture collaborate successfully in a composite art of text and design Or does one art inevitably dominate the other W.J.T. Mitchell maintains that Blake's illuminated poems are an exception to Suzanne Langer's claim that "there are no happy marriages in art-only successful rape." Drawing on over one hundred reproductions of Blake's