The Moment of Explosion: Blake and the Illustration of Milton

by Stephen C. Behrendt

William Blake thought that John Milton had been betrayed by both his commentators and his illustrators, and he set out to recover Milton's vision, particularly in Paradise Lost , from the misguided academic and Augustan misinterpretation to which it had been subjected. The Moment of Explosion: Blake and the Illustration of Milton is the first detailed. analysis of all of Blake's illustrations for Milton's poetry. Blake explicitly believed he was correcting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803211694
• ISBN13: 9780803211698
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.9" x 11.3"