Blake

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  A recent episode in a jobbing writer’s life found me interviewing Carolyn Cassady (author of Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg) in her comprehensively occupied Belsize Park flat. The unreality of this situation – talking, ... (read full critics)

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3 Reviews

• " This is the first biography to reveal the true affinities between Blake's art and his poetry; in the magnificent biographical narrative we see Blake as a Cockney visionary and a London tradesman, as a prophet and an artisan. In the course of Blake's history, Peter Ackroyd brilliantly recreates ei ... (continue)

  " This is the first biography to reveal the true affinities between Blake's art and his poetry; in the magnificent biographical narrative we see Blake as a Cockney visionary and a London tradesman, as a prophet and an artisan. In the course of Blake's history, Peter Ackroyd brilliantly recreates eighteenth-century London in a manner of which only he is capable."

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  A masterpiece of investigative research into the life of a well-known name - but not such a well-known man. Magnificent!

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  GraJon said on Mar 6, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  cannot be read lightly. it takes ages, but then you can say you really know - and admire - your blake.

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  Elsastella said on Feb 23, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 464 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0749391766
• ISBN-13: 9780749391768
• Publisher: VINTAGE (RAND)
• Pub date: Sep 02, 1996
• Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover and Audio Cassette

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