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An Island in the Moon

An Island in the Moon

Blake, William
Anderson, Taylor

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1976333245
ISBN13: 9781976333248
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 12 2017
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
An Island in the Moon is the name generally assigned to an untitled, prose satire by William Blake, written in late 1784. Containing early versions of three poems later included in Songs of Innocence (1789) and satirising the contrived and empty productions of the contemporary culture, An Island demonstrates Blake's increasing dissatisfaction with convention and his developing interest in prophetic modes of expression. Referred to by William Butler Yeats and E. J. Ellis as Blake's first true symbolic book, it also includes a partial description of Blake's soon-to-be-realised method of illuminated printing. The piece was unpublished during Blake's lifetime, and survives only in a single manuscript copy, residing in the Fitzwilliam Museum, in the University of Cambridge.

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