Dark Figures in the Desired Country

Toward the end of his life, William Blake produced a beautiful sequence of 28 watercolor drawings to illustrate Bunyan''s Pilgrim''s Progress. These rarely seen drawings show him at the peak of his powers, radically reinterpreting one of the central texts of English literature. Gerda Norvig''s book, with its stunning color reproductions, offers the first detailed study of these important works of ...