by William Blake · Edições Antígona · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789726080770
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«Uma ilha na lua» is the satirical work by William Blake, published in 1995 by Edições Antígona in paperback (109 pages, in Portuguese).
An unfinished work in prose and verse satirising the literary and musical soirées of eighteenth-century London's bourgeoisie. Blake ridicules scientific and social pretensions with dialogues and songs, characters with allegorical names, and themes such as childhood education, modern science, relations between the sexes, fashion and religion.
Original work: An Island in the Moon (1784). This Portuguese edition includes translation, preface and notes.
A work of interest to scholars of English literature and to those wishing to discover William Blake's satirical side.
William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "human existence itself".
