William Blake's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy: A Study of the Engravings, Pencil Sketches and Watercolors (Paperback)

from browner56

The lengthy title for this volume, William Blake's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy, is at once descriptive and highly misleading. The author's underlying premise for the book goes beyond simply presenting an annotated overview of the 102 watercolor paintings and seven engravings that Blak...

from octafoil40

Apparently Dante's "Divive Comedy" accepts the Christian view that limited human reason is inadequate to understand God. This book seeks to contrarily shows that human art is adequate to show God's full majesty.

from Larxol

Eric Pyle's book, William Blake's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy, explores the relationship between two great artists, separated by time and beliefs, but with much in common. In the last years of his life, Blake undertook a set of illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy. When he died in ...

from chuck_ralston

Eric Pyle's study of William Blake's illustrations of Dante' Alighieri's Commedia is admirable example of the highest form of criticism: one poet's reading of another poet and responding, in Blake's case, with engravings, sketches, and water colors. Would that this book had more than the dozen co...

from chuck_ralston

Eric Pyle's study of William Blake's illustrations of Dante' Alighieri's Commedia is admirable example of the highest form of criticism: one poet's reading of another poet and responding, in Blake's case, with engravings, sketches, and water colors. Would that this book had more than the dozen co...