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Morton D. Paley. The Traveller in the Evening: The Last Works of William Blake.(Book Review)

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From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20050922
Author:Carr, Stephen L.

Morton D. Paley. The Traveller in the Evening: The Last Works of William Blake. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 332. $125.00.

The Traveller in the Evening extends Morton Paley's distinguished career of scholarship on Blake's art and thought through a detailed reading of work from the last decade of Blake's life. Some of this art--the illustrations to Thornton's School Virgil, to Dante, and to the Book of Job--has long been celebrated; some still remains unfamiliar or obscure. Several works did not circulate widely in Blake's lifetime, including a few ...

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