Blake S Innocence And Experience Retraced

Author : Stanley Gardner
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472510136

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Blake's 'Innocence' and 'Experience' Retraced by Stanley Gardner Pdf

This major work of historical and interpretative scholarship draws upon fresh evidence to set the Songs in a new perspective. Blake's etchings are substantially discussed alongside the poems they illustrate. The plates of both Innocence and Experience are considered in detail as Blake's response to social circumstances between 1782 and 1794. The reader is asked to re-think the nature of 'the Two Contrary States', and the relationship of the designs to the understanding of Blake.

Author : Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Children in literature.
ISBN : 0312083548

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Blake's Innocence and Experience Retraced by Stanley Gardner Pdf

Author : Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : 0838635660

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The Tyger, the Lamb, and the Terrible Desart by Stanley Gardner Pdf

The first section of this book follows Blake out of the family haberdashery shop, where his parents tacitly and unwittingly shaped his future as a poet; then into (and out of) the custody of Basire, Moser, and the Medway militia. The book then turns back to the days of Samuel Pepys for the crowning of King Mob, and for the formulation of systems of social control, particularly directed at the young. Gardner traces the exploitation of children (both poor and "the better sort") through the century and Blake's familiar knowledge of the rescue of workhouse children in his parish which he chronicled in Innocence. It was these turbulent decades that fostered Blake's reactions to what he saw in the city around him, and which became the poems and designs in Innocence and Experience. For Blake, "the terrible desart of London" was where the triad of State, Church and Imperial Commerce set the foundations of privilege and oppression. Respite from this for Blake lay among the Surrey hills south of the Thames, and in "organised Innocence". Illustrated with maps, drawings and engravings of the period this part demonstrates how remarkably Blake's vision responded to his times. The second part of this book includes complete facsimiles of two copies of each of fifty-four plates in the Songs set.

Author : Joseph Hartley Wicksteed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106007124149

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Blake's Innocence and Experience by Joseph Hartley Wicksteed Pdf

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0435150820

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Blake: Selected Poems by William Blake Pdf

The books in this A Level poetry series contain a glossary and notes on each page. The approach encourages students to develop their own responses to the poems, and an A Level Chief Examiner offers exam tips. This text contains selected poems of William Blake.

Author : John Lucas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317892045

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William Blake by John Lucas Pdf

The collection of essays presented in this volume represents some of the best recent critical work on William Blake as poet, prophet, visual artist, and social and political critic of his time. The critical range that is represented includes examples of Marxist, New Historicist, Feminist and Psychoanalytical approaches to Blake. Taken together, the essays consider all areas and moments of Blake's career as poet, from the early lyrics to his later epic poems, and they have been chosen to reveal not only the range of Blake's concerns but also to alert the reader to the rich variety of contemporary criticism that is devoted to him. Although the majority of essays are devoted to Blake as poet, others consider his work as printmaker, illustrator, and visionary artist. However severely individual essays choose to judge him, ultimately all the contributions to this book affirm Blake as one of the great geniuses of English art and letters. William Blake provides a valuable introduction by one of Britain's foremost critics and will be welcomed by students wanting to familiarise themselves with the work of Blake.

Author : James Rovira
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441114525

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Blake and Kierkegaard by James Rovira Pdf

This study applies Kierkegaardian anxiety to Blake's creation myths to explain how Romantic era creation narratives are a reaction to Enlightenment models of personality.

Author : J. Tambling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230505612

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Blake's Night Thoughts by J. Tambling Pdf

Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and Blanchot's writings in the twentieth. Taking 'night' as the breakdown of rational progressive thought and of thought based on concepts of identity, the book reads the lyric poetry, some Prophetic works, including a chapter on The Four Zoas , the illustrations to Young, and Dante, and look's at Blake's writing of madness.

Author : Andrew M. Cooper
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438493237

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A Bastard Kind of Reasoning by Andrew M. Cooper Pdf

What do Einsteinian relativity, eighteenth-century field theory, Neoplatonism, and the overthrow of three-dimensional perspective have in common? The poet and artist William Blake's geometry—the conception of space-time that informs his work across media and genres. In this illuminating, inventive new study, Andrew M. Cooper reveals Blake to be the vehicle of a single imaginative vision in which art, literature, physics, and metaphysics stand united. Romantic-period physics was not, as others have assumed, materialist. Blake's cosmology forms part of his age's deep reevaluation of body and soul, of matter and Heaven, and even probes what it is to understand understanding, reason, and substance. Far from being anti-Newtonian, Blake was prophetically post-Newtonian. His poetry and art realized the revolutionary potential of Enlightened natural philosophy even as that philosophy still needed an Einstein for its physics to snap fully into focus. Blake's mythmaking exploits the imaginative reach of formal abstractions to generate a model of how sensation imparts physical extension to the world. More striking still, Cooper shows how Blake's art of vision leads us today to visualize four-dimensional concepts of space, time, and Man for ourselves.

Author : Bill Gillham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1966-01-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780521050838

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Blake's Contrary States by Bill Gillham Pdf

An exploration of the 'dramatic' statements amongst the contradictions in Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience.

Author : Paul Youngquist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317072188

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Race, Romanticism, and the Atlantic by Paul Youngquist Pdf

In highlighting the crucial contributions of diasporic people to British cultural production, this important collection defamiliarizes prevailing descriptions of Romanticism as the expression of a national character or culture. The contributors approach the period from the perspective of the Atlantic maritime economy, making a strong case for viewing British Romanticism as the effect of myriad economic and cultural exchanges occurring throughout a circum-Atlantic world driven by an insatiable hunger for sugar and slaves. Typically taken for granted, the material contributions of slaves, sailors, and servants shaped Romanticism both in spite of and because of the severe conditions they experienced throughout the Atlantic world. The essays range from Sierra Leone to Jamaica to Nova Scotia to the metropole, examining not only the desperate circumstances of diasporic peoples but also the extraordinary force of their creativity and resistance. Of particular importance is the emergence of race as a category of identity, class, and containment. Race, Romanticism, and the Atlantic explores that process both economically and theoretically, showing how race ensures the persistence of servitude after abolition. At the same time, the collection never loses sight of the extraordinary contributions diasporic peoples made to British culture during the Romantic era.

Author : Steve Clark,Tristanne Connolly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137461964

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British Romanticism in European Perspective by Steve Clark,Tristanne Connolly Pdf

What, and when, is British Romanticism, if seen not in island isolation but cosmopolitan integration with European Romantic literature, history and culture? The essays here range from poetry and the novel to science writing, philosophy, visual art, opera and melodrama; from France and Germany to Italy and Bosnia.

Author : Robert Woods
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781846312823

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Children Remembered by Robert Woods Pdf

Children Remembered discusses the relationship between parents and children in the past. It focuses on the ways in which adults responded to the untimely deaths of children, whether and how they expressed their grief. The study engages with the hypothesis of ‘parental indifference’ associated with the French cultural historian Philippe Ariès by analysing the changing risk of mortality since the sixteenth century and assessing its consequences. It uses paintings and poems to describe feelings and emotions in ways that are not only highly original, but also challenge traditional disciplinary conventions. The circumstances of infant and child mortality are considered for France and England, while example portraits and poems are selected from England and America. While the work is firmly grounded in demography, it is especially concerned with current debates in social and cultural history, with the history of childhood, the way pictorial images can be ‘read’, and the use as historical evidence to which literature may be put. This is a wide- ranging and ambitions multi-disciplinary study that will add significantly to our understanding of demographic structures; the ways in which they have conditioned attitudes and behaviour in the past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000027522550

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Blake by Anonim Pdf

An illustrated quarterly.

Author : Joseph H. Wicksteed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Blake's Innocence and Experiences by Joseph H. Wicksteed Pdf