{"id":256,"date":"2025-08-17T14:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2025-08-17T14:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:20:51","slug":"recent-reading-william-blake-and-the-sea-monsters-of-love-by-philip-hoare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/17\/recent-reading-william-blake-and-the-sea-monsters-of-love-by-philip-hoare\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent reading: William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love, by Philip Hoare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/william-blake-and-the-sea-monsters-of-love-art-poetry-and-the-imagining-of-a-new-world-philip-hoare\/21518060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: Art, Poetry, and the Imagining of a New World<\/em>, by Philip Hoare<\/a>; Pegasus Books, Ltd., 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A partial biography of a life still in progress, following William Blake\u2019s continuing influence on writers and artists (many of them queer), as well as Blake&#8217;s role in the author&#8217;s own life. Hoare gives some love and appreciation to William Blake\u2019s artistic collaborator and wife Catherine Blake, and the book includes photos of her three known solo works of art: an illustration of a scene in the gothic novel <em>The Monk<\/em>, a surreal face Catherine saw while looking into a fire, and a portrait of William. After reading Hoare\u2019s book, now I have to read <em>Billy Budd<\/em> and seek out the films of Derek Jarman and the art of Paul Nash and the writings of Nancy Cunard and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A partial biography of an ongoing life, following Blake&#8217;s continuing influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[26,28,29,25,27],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-books","tag-catherine-blake","tag-philip-hoare","tag-reading","tag-william-blake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}