Robert Blair

Robert N. Essick

Morton D. Paley

Robert Blair's The Grave

Stanislas Klossowski de Rola

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

Balthus

A selection of the artist's paintings is accompanied by a brief analysis of his artistic style

An introduction to the William Blake Collection in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California.

An Introduction to the William Blake Collection in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California

William Blake at the Huntington

Setting William Blake's language concepts and practices within the broad context of linguistic history, this book offers a new perspective on his poetry. Essick first looks in detail at four of Blake's paintings and addresses some basic questions in semiotic theory based on the history of the "motivated sign" idea from Plato to Wilhelm von Humboldt. Converting this background into a hermeneutic, he then demonstrates Blake's contributions to the mystical tradition and his critique of 18th-century linguistic doctrines, presenting a parodic deconstruction of rationalist sign theory in The Book of Urizen. Finally, Essick looks at Blake's compositional practices, his development of these into a transactional view of language, and the apocalyptic reordering of the relationship between meaning and being in Jerusalem.

William Blake and the Language of Adam

William Blake

Edward Young

Jenijoy La Belle

Superb complete reproduction of 1797 edition of Edward Young's popular poem Night Thoughts, with 43 magnificent illustrations by William Blake. Plate-by-plate commentaries, general introduction, bibliography.

Robert N. Essick

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