| Contributors | AUTHOR: William Blake: Blake, William
| Language | en |
| Description | This carefully crafted ebook: For the Sexes: the Gates of Paradise (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake) is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Gates of Paradise, were first published in a limited run in 1793. W.Blake later changed the title to For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, and added several more drawings as well as a preface and concluding verse, publishing this version in 1818. The seventeen emblematic drawings and their commentaries depict the life of man from birth to death: passage through the four elements (water, earth, wind and fire), hatching as a child from the mundane shell, encountering women, reaching for the moon of love (I want, I want), falling into Time`s Ocean. After several other episodes he finally arrives at the death`s door with Job`s words: I have said to the Worm: Thou art my mother and my sister. There a female figure is Weaving to Dreams the Sexual strife, And Weeping over the Web of Life. William Blake (1757 – 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. |
| Page Count | 79 |
| Price | 0.99 USD |
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