Sunday, May 31, 2015

Dante 5






In Songs of Experience Blake introduced the 'forest';

TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,

Through the years of his career he used 'forest often; it occurred 63 times in his poetry.
In his last years he turned to the poetry of Dante and found his 'forest' and put it in one of his
Illustrations.


Dante and Virgil Penetrat the Forest
Blake's Illustration
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