WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE AGE OF REVOLUTION

Jacob Bronowski

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ISBN 10: 0710072783 ISBN 13: 9780710072788

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, UK, 1972

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Text/NEW & Bright. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN assigned subsequently. Illustrated softcover/VG w/light shelfwear. On balancing radical politics (revolutions) and religious fervour (established religions). Study of English poet & painter William Blake ( 1757 - 1827) and his reactions to the contemporary world revealed in his writings from Polish-British mathematician & historian Jacob Bronowski (1908 - 1974). Author Bronowski is noted for a humanistic approach to science, and his 1973 BBC TV documentary & its accompanying book, The Ascent of Man. Poet Blake, himself a committed Christian, was hostile to the Church of England and, indeed, many forms of organized religion, and influenced by the ideals & ambitions of the French and American revolutions. Bronowski's first book on Blake, A Man Without a Mask was published in 1944, and followed by a famous anthology Blake's poems & letters in 1958. This volume is the 1965 revised edition of A Man Without a Mask, is virtually a new book. 207 pgs, 16 plates, in 5 parts. Following Introduction: I, The Prophetic Mask; II, The Seditious Writings; III, The Satanic Wheels; IV, Innocence & Experience; and V, The Man Without a Mask. Seller Inventory # 020156

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Title: WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE AGE OF REVOLUTION

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, UK

Publication Date: 1972

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Collectible - Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued

Edition: First Edition, 2nd Printing of 1977

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Bronowski was fascinated by William Blake for much of his life. His first book about him, "A Man Without a Mask", was published in 1944. In 1958 his famous Penguin selection of Blake's poems and letters was published. As further testimony to Bronowski's enthusiasm it should be noted that the final plate in the book of his great TV series "The Ascent of Man" is Blake's frontispiece to Songs of Experience. "William Blake and the Age of Revolution", first published in 1965, is, in some ways, a revised edition of "A Man Without a Mask", in others, a new book. In it Bronowski gives a stimulating interpretation of Blake's art and poetry in the context of the revolutionary period in which he was working. Like all of Bronowski's writings it dazzles with wide-ranging erudition, making this work far removed from conventional literary criticism.

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Jacob Bronowski was born in Poland in 1908. At the age of 12 he came to England, and within six years was a brilliant mathematics student at Cambridge. During the war he helped to forecast the economic effects of bombing Germany. After many years working for the National Coal Board, he moved to the Salk Institute in 1964 while developing his career as a broadcaster. In 1973, he presented for the BBC the ambitious 13-part series The Ascent of Man, which made him a household name. He died the following year.

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