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Article: `William Blake: The Gates of Paradise': An affectionate look at the artist, poet, renegade.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2006
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Byline: Katie Haegele
``William Blake: The Gates of Paradise'' by Michael Bedard; Tundra ($19.95)
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Tundra Books has a good eye for the zeitgeist, and its new nonfiction YA book, "William Blake: The Gates of Paradise,'' would seem a sure thing: lovely color pictures and the fascinating life story of an already-beloved artist. Michael Bedard has done a nice job of situating William Blake in his time and place _ the dirty, lively city of London in the 18th century _ and in so doing shows younger readers how his life meshed with his world.
The book is pleasingly organized into 16 chapters and a little prologue, with images from "The ...