Milton, a poem in 2 books Pl.31
19th century
William Blake was a visionary rebel who invented 'illuminated printing' to combine poetry and art, bypassing traditional publishers. This page, plate 31 from his epic *Milton*, looks like a page from a magical grimoire, with dense text squeezed into a box and framed by a hand-colored border of pinks and blues. Blake wrote this to spiritually 'correct' the famous poet John Milton, imagining him descending from heaven to fix his errors. The text here describes a 'Vision of the lamentation of Beulah,' diving into Blake's wild, personal mythology where fairies, spirits, and the 'Four Elements' roam free in a dreamlike landscape.
- Technique
- Relief etching with hand coloring
- Material
- Paper
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