An influential artist and poet of the Romantic age, William Blake (1757-1827) was additionally a tradesman who, coaching and dealing in London for the overwhelming majority of his life, supported himself as an engraver. On this video from the British Library, the engraver Michael Phillips, who has studied and recreated Blake’s strategies for a number of many years, explores how, in his modern engraving work, Blake married his two best passions – poetry and visible artwork. In a tactile demonstration, Phillips particulars how Blake created a way to pair his poems with unique illustrations. The ensuing quick presents a chic take a look at how, by way of a mixture of years of apprenticeship and creative imaginative and prescient, Blake was capable of management each facet of his poetry collections.
