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Aesthetic Rapture Between Heaven and Hell: William Blake Illustrates John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
“The mind is its own place, and in it self / Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.”
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Vintage Illustrated Verses for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
“William, William, writing late by the chill and sooty grate, what immortal story can make your tiger roar again?”
Dismantling the Dogmas of Life and Death: How the Forgotten Prodigy William James Sidis Presaged the Quantum Undoing of Time and Thermodynamics
“There is no way of telling whether we are living organisms in a positive universe, or pseudo-living organisms in a negative universe.. The difference is really one merely between the two directions of time, and, though those two directions are opposite to each other, they have no physical properties which are in any way different.”
Blake, Beethoven, and the Tragic Genius of Outsiderdom
“It is the mark of a genius like Blake … that what is purest and most consistent in his thought burns away his own suffering and fanaticism, while his art speaks to what is most deeply human in us.”
The Bed Book: Sylvia Plath’s Vintage Poems for Kids, Illustrated by Quentin Blake
“Most Beds are Beds for sleeping and resting, but the best Beds are much more interesting!”
William Blake’s Breathtaking Drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy, Over Which He Labored Until His Dying Day
The sinister and sublime, in transcendent watercolors.
A Private History of Happiness: The Art of Living with Presence, from Ptolemy to George Eliot to William Blake
“I know that I am mortal by nature and ephemeral, but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch earth with my feet. I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia.”
The Original Marriage of Equals: The Love Letters of Feminism Founding Mother Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Philosopher William Godwin
“We love as it were to multiply our consciousness… even at the hazard… of opening new avenues for pain and misery to attack us.”
What Is an Emotion? William James’s Revolutionary 1884 Theory of How Our Bodies Affect Our Feelings
“A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.”
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