Blake Peter Ackroyd
Poet, painter, engraver and visionary, Blake's was a radical spirit fired by genius. Yet his life has remained an enigma. In this magnificent biography Peter Ackroyd discloses the true nature of William Blake's life and art.
Blake
Blake
Résumé
Poet, painter, engraver and visionary, Blake's was a radical spirit fired by genius. Yet his life has remained an enigma.In this magnificent biography Peter Ackroyd discloses the true nature of William Blake's life and art.
Blake Résumé
Blake Avis
"Marvellous...deeply moving and radiant with detail... What makes Ackroyd so exceptional among biographers is the range and beauty of his knowledge.This is a book to go out and buy at once" * Observer *
"Exhilarating...has all the hypnotic power and psychological intensity of a dream-fiction" * Daily Telegraph *
"Glowing and engaged...will send many readers back to the poems enriched" -- John Carey * Sunday Times *
"Taut, lucid and intelligent...will surely stand as a classic of the genre" * Harpers & Queen *
"Exhilarating...has all the hypnotic power and psychological intensity of a dream-fiction" * Daily Telegraph *
"Glowing and engaged...will send many readers back to the poems enriched" -- John Carey * Sunday Times *
"Taut, lucid and intelligent...will surely stand as a classic of the genre" * Harpers & Queen *
À propos de Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
Informations supplémentaires
GOR001426314
9780749391768
0749391766
Blake Peter Ackroyd
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Vintage Publishing
1996-09-02
464
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