{"product_id":"william-blake-and-the-sea-monsters-of-love-a-sunday-times-book-of-the-year-non-fiction-study-of-art-and-myth","title":"William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love: A Sunday Times Book of the Year Non-Fiction Study of Art and Myth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed a BOOK OF THE YEAR by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Statesman, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSpectator, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eProspect,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Undoubtedly Hoare’s masterpiece’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOlivia Laing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Queer in all senses of the word’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNeil Tennant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘A life-changing book’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobert Douglas Fairhurst, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Fabulously idiosyncratic’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLucy Hughes-Hallett, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHow one visionary inspired 200 years of art, poetry, and protest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWeaving between the historical, cultural and personal, award-winning author Philip Hoare reveals a web of creative minds and artistic iconoclasts fired with the wild and revolutionary genius of William Blake.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1973, Derek Jarman set off from London to film the stones of Avebury. He was following in the footsteps of Paul Nash, who had photographed the ancient megaliths a generation before. Standing in that muddy field, by those stones, both artists had felt a direct connection to their hero – a man who had died a long, long time ago, yet who remained electrically alive to them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this alluring and poetic odyssey, Philip Hoare traces the enduring legacy of William Blake and how he came to inspire so many creative lives. Reaching out of his past and into our future, Blake draws together the natural world and metaphysical realms, merging the human and the animal and the spiritual, firing up twentieth-century artists, filmmakers, poets, writers and musicians with his radical promise of absolute freedom. This stirring, deeply felt book brings us back to Blake and shows that art still has the power to create positive change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘A book that is neither Blake biography nor critical analysis nor legacy-tracing nor personal odyssey but a capacious mixing of them all … a joyful and dizzying romp’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePhilip Marsden,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSpectator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘This love letter to William Blake couldn’t be more eccentric … Philip Hoare’s weird and wonderful style soars in this study of the poet and his disciples’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIan Sansom,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Hoare’s impassioned style, alive with metaphor and wordplay, has often been called “dreamlike”. This is apt, given his total immersion in his subject … Nothing will be as audacious or intriguing as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWilliam Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJenny Uglow,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section _about-the-author-card_carouselItemStyles_authorName__HSb1t\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Philip-Hoare\/e\/B000APSHK0\/ref=aufs_dp_mata_dsk\" class=\"a-size-large a-link-normal\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePhilip Hoare\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-row a-spacing-base a-spacing-top-medium a-grid-vertical-align a-grid-center\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv name=\"a-cardui-deck-autoname-0\" data-a-remove-bottom-gutter=\"true\" data-a-remove-top-gutter=\"true\" class=\"a-cardui-deck\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv name=\"a-cardui-deck-autoname-0-card0\" data-a-card-type=\"basic\" class=\"a-cardui _about-the-author-card_carouselItemStyles_expander__3Fm-M\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-cardui-body\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-reactive-container a-reactive-container-transition\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-max-height=\"80\" class=\"a-cardui-content a-cardui-uninitialized _about-the-author-card_carouselItemStyles_peekableContent__hWM3i\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhilip Hoare is the author of several books, including 'Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant'; 'Noel Coward: A Biography'; 'Oscar Wilde's Last Stand'; 'Spike Island' and 'England's Lost Eden'. 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