William Blake's print entitled The Whirlwind of Lovers; The Circle of the Lustful (Fig.1.) represents a scene from Dante's Divine Comedy. In the essay The Language of The Prophetic Art, Bindman points out that throughout Blake's life his art developed and evolved reflecting earlier techniques of the past, some of which he continued to use in his works and others he rejected later in his career. He argues this point by comparing Blake's works to those of other artists before or during his time and using these examples as clear examples of Blake's adoption of other styles and their incorporation into his works. In the essay, Bindman's main points were to address Blake's gradual change of style in his works and adopting other styles. He does this by stating that Blake's works depict each character with differentiated characteristics, citing that this type of style was associated with Raphael's time, during the High Renaissance movement. He states that "later in his artistic career, Blake began to eliminate background characters and show strong facial expressions in foreground figures." And cites the works of art Europe (No. 44) (Fig. 2.), The Book of Urizen (Pl, IV) (Fig. 3.) and Plague (No. 12) (Fig. 4.) as examples places where the main characters express intense emotions. He shows these examples of Blake's artwork changing styles to support his argument that Blake's artwork always evolved gradually throughout his artistic career. I agree with this point because of the many examples he provided of Blake's works incorporating the use of intense emotions in the figures. Bindman continues to address the evolution of Blake's artistic techniques by also explaining how, during the 1790s, Blake's works became more expressive of the human body. It is...... middle of paper ......o the country. After this shift, his work focused on compositional symmetry and the depiction of light.Works CitedBindman, David. 1982. The language of prophetic art. Great Britain: Thames and Hudson.Blake, William. 1824. Beatrice speaking to Dante from the carriage.Blake, William. 1794. Europe, a prophecy. Blake, William. 1805. Plague.Blake, William. 1804. Jerusalem Plate 76.Blake, William. 1794. The Book of Urizen. Blake, William. 1827. The whirlwind of lovers. Gardner, Charles. 2010. William Blake: The Man. Project Gutenberg. Gilchrist, Alexander. 1880. Life of William Blake. Le Brun, Charles. 1760. Terror or fright. Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1967. Vol. 8. 25 flights. Wedmore, Fredrick. 1900. Issac Basire National Biographical Dictionary. Flight. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. William, Blake. 1795. Newton.