How Long to Read The Traveller in the Evening - The Last Works of William Blake

How Long Does it Take to Read The Traveller in the Evening - The Last Works of William Blake?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 59 minutes to read The Traveller in the Evening - The Last Works of William Blake by Morton D. Paley

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Description

There has never been a book about Blake's last period, from his meeting with John Linnell in 1818 to his death in 1827, although it includes some of his greatest works. In The Traveller in the Evening, Morton Paley argues that this late phase involves attitudes, themes, and ideas that are either distinctively new or different in emphasis from what preceded them. After an introduction on Blake and his milieu during this period, Paley begins with a chapter on Blake's illustrations to Thornton's edition of Virgil. Paley relates these to Blake's complex view of pastoral, before proceeding to a history of the project, its near-abortion, and its fulfillment as one of Blake's greatest accomplishments as an illustrator. In Yah and His Two Sons the presentation of the divine, except where it is associated with art, is ambiguous where it is not negative. Paley takes up this separate plate in the context of artists's representations of the Laocoon that would have been known to Blake, and also of what Blake would have known of its history from classical antiquity to his own time. Blake's Dante water colours and engravings are the most ambitious accomplishment of the last years of his life, and Paley shows that the problematic nature of some of these pictures, with Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car as a main example, arises from Blake's own divided and sharply polarized attitude toward Dante's Comedy. The closing chapter, called 'Blake's Bible', is on the Bible-related designs and writings of Blake's last years. Paley discusses The Death of Abel (addressed to Lord Byron 'in the Wilderness') as a response to its literary forerunners, especially Gessner's Death of Abel and Byron's Cain. For the Job engravings Paley shows how the border designs and the marginal texts set up a dialogue with the main illustrations unlike anything in Blake's Job water colours on the same subjects. Also included here are Blake's last pictorial work on a Biblical subject, The Genesis manuscript, and Blake's last writing on a Biblical text, his vitriolic comments on Thornton's translations of the Lord's Prayer.

How long is The Traveller in the Evening - The Last Works of William Blake?

The Traveller in the Evening - The Last Works of William Blake by Morton D. Paley is 348 pages long, and a total of 89,784 words.

This makes it 117% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Traveller in the Evening - The Last Works of William Blake Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 10 minutes to read The Traveller in the Evening - The Last Works of William Blake aloud.

What Reading Level is The Traveller in the Evening - The Last Works of William Blake?

The Traveller in the Evening - The Last Works of William Blake is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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