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Article: ACKROYD CONNECTS BLAKE TO HIS MYSTICAL WORK.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- June 2, 1996
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Byline: DIANE SCHARPER
BLAKE
A Biography
PETER ACKROYD
Alfred A. Knopf. 399 pp. $35.
``The ancient man, bearded and naked, leans out from a bright orb and with his compass divides the material world; his long hair is being blown by some unknown force, and the nature of the fiery sphere or circle behind him is indeterminate. It may be a planet, or a globe of human blood. It may be the sun, since its colors vary from pink and red to ochre and golden. It was one of the last images upon which Blake worked in the hours before his death.''
But it is one of the first about which acclaimed British poet, novelist and ...
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