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- Title
‘Art Delivered’: Stothard's The Sable Venus and Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion.
- Authors
GOURLAY, ALEXANDER S.
- Abstract
The article discusses the works of poet William Blake and explores the unique approaches to poetry taken by Blake. Blake's tendency to appropriate and copy previous works and apply parody to these works is described. The author specifically examines the way Blake borrowed from Classical and Neoclassical authors in his poem "Visions of the Daughters of Albion." The work of Blake is compared with the work of painter Thomas Stothard, and their relationship is analyzed. Stothard's painting "The Voyage of the Sable Venus from Angola to the West Indies" is discussed and Blake's use of the painting is also described.
- Subjects
BLAKE, William, 1757-1827; LITERARY criticism; POETRY (Literary form); PARODY; VISIONS of the Daughters of Albion (Poem : Blake); STOTHARD, Thomas, 1755-1834; PAINTERS
- Publication
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2008, Vol 31, Issue 4, p529
- ISSN
1754-0194
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1754-0208.2008.00158.x