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Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"Burning bright" is a novel about the 18th-century English poet/painter William Blake and the children who sparked his "Songs of innocence" and "Songs of experience." In March of 1792, young Jem Kellaway and his family move from their small rural village in the Piddle Valley to the bustling city of London. Jem's father, a chairmaker, has agreed to hire on as a carpenter with Astley's Circus. Maggie Butterfield, the streetwise daughter of a local rogue,...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 380L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In a forest where everyone fears rabbits, a fierce tiger tries to persuade the animals that they should fear him, instead.
Author
Pub. Date
1981
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
pages 12-[45] : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, this delightful collection of poetry for children brings to life Blake's imaginary inn and its unusual guests.
Author
Series
Bampton lectures in America volume no. 12
Pub. Date
1959
Physical Desc
ix, 122 pages : 64 plates (including facsimiles) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xx, 244 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"G.E. Bentley, Jr., the dean of Blake scholars, details the poet's occupations as a commercial engraver, print-seller, teacher, copperplate printer, painter, publisher, and vendor of his own books. In his early career as a commercial engraver, Blake was modestly prosperous, but thereafter his fortunes declined. For his most ambitious commercial designs, he made hundreds of folio designs and scores of engravings, but was paid scarcely more than twenty...