Research Guides: William Blake Resources (Tri-Co): Biographies

Biographies (Circulating)

Blake by Peter Ackroyd
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ISBN: 067940967X
Publication Date: 1996-03-26
New York: Knopf, 1996

16 pages of black-and-white and 24 pages of full-color illustrations, plus 73 illustrations in text.
Eternity's Sunrise: the imaginative world of William Blake
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ISBN: 9780300200676
Publication Date: 2015
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015
* Following Blake's life from beginning to end, acclaimed biographer Leo Damrosch draws extensively on Blake's poems, his paintings, and his etchings and engravings to offer this generously illustrated account of Blake the man and his vision of our world. The author's goal is to inspire the reader with the passion he has for his subject, achieving the imaginative response that Blake himself sought to excite.
The Stranger from Paradise by G. E. Bentley
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ISBN: 0300089392
Publication Date: 2001-06-10
New Haven; London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2001
* "William Blake's wife once said of him: "I have very little of Mr. Blake's company; he is always in Paradise". This illustrated biography of the great English artist, poet and mystic brings us very much into Blake's company, presenting, often in the words of his contemporaries, everything that is known of his life and times."--BOOK JACKET
William Blake by Osbert Burdett
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ISBN: 9781844846498
Publication Date: 2009-12-02
New York: Parkstone International, 2009
William Blake by John Beer
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ISBN: 1403939543
Publication Date: 2005-10-07
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Covering Blake's early career, his major works (such asSongs of Innocence and of Experience) and his work as a visual artist, this new study is a must for all Blake scholars and enthusiasts. Recent discoveries concerning Blake's forebears and their religion make this new study additionally timely.
William Blake by James King
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ISBN: 0312052928
Publication Date: 1991-04-01
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991
William Blake: His Life and Work by Jack Lindsay
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ISBN: 0807609137
Publication Date: 1979-03-01
New York: Braziller, 1979

Videos

Blake [DVD]
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West Long Branch, NJ: Kultur, 2006, 2000
- Written by David Manson; narrated by Michael Leighton
William Blake, poet and painter, 1757-1827
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Falls Church, VA: Landmark Media, 2002
- "Traces the life of William Blake from being taught to read and write by his mother to his death in poverty in 1826."
William Blake
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New York: Films Media Group, 2005
- The author Peter Ackroyd, Blake's latest biographer, is the guide as this program explores late-Georgian London: a world of political ferment and religious dispute, where the winds of revolution were blowing across the sea from America and France and a mad king sat on the English throne. The program examines Blake's artistic achievement and assesses his continuing appeal.

Biographies (BMC Special Collections)

Life of William Blake: "pictor ignotus": with selections from his poems and other writings
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London : Macmillan, 1863

"Annotated lists of Blake's paintings, drawings, and engravings": v. 2, p. [201]-264.
William Blake: an introduction
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New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967.

An introduction and critical guide to William Blake's poetry, including a brief biography and fifteen reproductions of his paintings and engravings.
The real Blake: a portrait biography
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New York : McClure, Phillips & Co., 1907.

Biographies (HC Special Collections)

Life of William Blake: "pictor ignotus": with selections from his poems and other writings
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London : Macmillan, 1863

"Annotated lists of Blake's paintings, drawings, and engravings": v. 2, p. [201]-264.
William Blake, his life, character, and genius
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London: Macmillan & co; New York: S. Sonnenschein & co., 1893
Men Who Have Walked with God
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"Being the story of mysticism through the ages told in the biographies of representative seers and saints, with excerpts from their writings and saying"

Chapter 10: A mystic in the age of enlightened scepticism: William Blake.
New York: Knopf, 1945