{"product_id":"the-temptation-and-fall-of-eve-illustration-to-miltons-paradise-lost-william-blake","title":"The Temptation and Fall of Eve (Illustration to Milton's Paradise Lost), William Blake","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eWilliam Blake illustrated Paradise Lost more than any other artist, refining his interpretation of Milton’s words each time he revisited them. This watercolour, depicting The Temptation and the Fall of Eve (1808) is one of a set of 12 plates commissioned by Reverend Thomas Butts, one of Blake’s most loyal patrons. The so-called Butts Set (1804-1810) is the largest and more vivid of all the versions and possibly the most sophisticated. This is the passage that this watercolour depicts, the scene when Eve resolves to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere grows the cure of all, this fruit divine,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFair to the eye, inviting to the taste, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf virtue to make wise: what hinders then \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo reach, and feed at once both body and mind?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So saying, her rash hand in evil hour\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSighing through all her works gave signs of woe,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat all was lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook IX, 776-784\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eWilliam Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. What he called his prophetic works were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form \"what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language\". His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him \"far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced\". In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich œuvre, which embraced the imagination as \"the body of God\" or \"human existence itself\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of the Romantic movement and as \"Pre-Romantic\". A committed Christian who was hostile to the Church of England (indeed, to almost all forms of organised religion), Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American Revolutions. Though later he rejected many of these political beliefs, he maintained an amiable relationship with the political activist Thomas Paine; he was also influenced by thinkers such as Emanuel Swedenborg. Despite these known influences, the singularity of Blake's work makes him difficult to classify. 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