Blake is acclaimed as one of the greatest poets and artists; he is also a fascinating figure in English history. He devised a unique method of self-publishing that combined written text and illustration on the same copperplate. The resulting 'illuminated books', which he printed and coloured himself with the help of his wife, mostly sold in small number within a network of admirers. Blake's chief artistic breakthroughs were little known in his lifetime, but from the... >Voir plus