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William Blake: Illustrated

William Blake: Illustrated

Anderson, Taylor
Chesterton, G. K.

Paperback

Historical FiguresLiterary FiguresGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1981170251
ISBN13: 9781981170258
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 26 2017
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
William Blake is the illustrated edition of the 1910 work of criticism of William Blake.
William Blake would have been the first to understand that the biography of anybody ought really to begin with the words, In the beginning God created heaven and earth. If we were telling the story of Mr Jones of Kentish Town, we should need all the centuries to explain it. We cannot comprehend even the name Jones, until we have realised that its commonness is not the commonness of vulgar but of divine things; for its very commonness is an echo of the adoration of St John the Divine. The adjective Kentish is rather a mystery in that geographical connection; but the word Kentish is not so mysterious as the awful and impenetrable word town. We shall have rent up the roots of prehistoric mankind and seen the last revolutions of modern society before we really know the meaning of the word town. So every word we use comes to us coloured from all its adventures in history, every phase of which has made at least a faint alteration. The only right way of telling a story is to begin at the beginning-at the beginning of the world. Therefore all books have to be begun in the wrong way, for the sake of brevity. If Blake wrote the life of Blake it would not begin with any business about his birth or parentage.

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