WORDS AND PICTURES

Sub-titled 'Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition', the book explores three fascinating examples of relationships between artists and writers - the illustrations of Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress, Hogarth and Fielding; a writer and artist dealing with common material; Wordsworth and Thomas Bewick, a poet and engraver working separately but imbued with the spirit of their age. A brief coda turns to a fourth kind of relationship, the writers and artists who collaborate from the start, beginning with Dickens and Phiz and Lewis Carroll and Tenniel. All were great innovators who shared common aims and this is a book for all with an interest in the poetry, novel writing, painting, engraving or cartooning of the period, a rewarding and generally illustrated book. Includes colour plates, several of Thomas Bewick's birds and Hogarth's The Shrimp Girl and Blake's The Temptation of Eve. 162pp, softback.