William Blake and the Age of Aquarius edited by Stephen F. Eisenman (Northwestern University Press & Princeton University Press, 2017) Hardcover

Stephen F. Eisenman, editor. William Blake and the Age of Aquarius. Northwestern University Press & Princeton University Press, 2017. Hardcover. 232 pages. Condition: New Descripton from the publisher: In his own lifetime, William Blake (1757–1827) was a relatively unknown nonconventional artist with a strong political bent. William Blake and the Age of Aquarius is a beautifully illustrated look at how, some two hundred years after his birth, the antiestablishment values embodied in Blake’s art and poetry became a model for artists of the American counterculture.This book provides new insights into the politics and protests of Blake’s own lifetime, and the generation of artists who revived and reimagined his work in the mid-1940s through 1970, or what might be called the “long sixties.” Contributors explore Blake’s outsider status in Georgian England and how his individualistic vision spoke to members of the Beat Generation, hippies, radical poets and writers, and other voices of t