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William Blake : visiones de mundos eternos (1757-1827).
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ISBN: 8476645376 0415134412 0415568897 1134782357 1134782365 1280325240 0203199030 9788476645376 Year: 1996 Publisher: Madrid Fundacion La Caixa


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William Blake in the desolate market
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ISBN: 0773590293 9780773590298 9780773543065 0773543066 9780773581678 0773581677 Year: 2014 Publisher: Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Experience taught William Blake that "Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy." His brilliant achievements as a poet, painter, and engraver brought him public notice, but little income. William Blake in the Desolate Market records how Blake, the most original of all the major English poets, earned his living. G.E. Bentley Jr, the dean of Blake scholars, details the poet's occupations as a commercial engraver, print-seller, teacher, copperplate printer, painter, publisher, and vendor of his own books. In his early career as a commercial engraver, Blake was modestly prosperous, but thereafter his fortunes declined. For his most ambitious commercial designs, he made hundreds of folio designs and scores of engravings, but was paid scarcely more than twenty pounds for two or three years' work. His invention of illuminated printing lost money, and many of his greatest works, such as Jerusalem, were left unsold at his death. He came to believe that his "business is not to gather gold, but to make glorious shapes." William Blake in the Desolate Market is an investigation of Blake's labours to support himself by his arts. The changing prices of his works, his costs and receipts, as well as his patrons and employers are expertly gathered and displayed to show the material side of the artistic career in Britain's Romantic period.

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