From Canterbury to Jerusalem: Interpreting Blake's Canterbury Pilgrims

Author / Editor
Stevenson, Warren.

Title
From Canterbury to Jerusalem: Interpreting Blake's Canterbury Pilgrims

Published
William K. Finley and Joseph Rosenblum, eds. Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures (New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2003), pp. 191-209.

Description
Stevenson interprets William Blake's depiction of the Canterbury pilgrims (rendered in several manifestations) in light of contemporaneous works and Blakes "Descriptive Catalogue" (1809). Visual symbols, juxtapositions, and contrasts indicate that Blake "invites the viewer to consider the classes of men in the light of eternity and to participate in the human and divine vision of forgiveness."

Alternative Title
Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.