William Blake In Context

Author : Sarah Haggarty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316508102

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William Blake in Context by Sarah Haggarty Pdf

William Blake, poet and artist, is a figure often understood to have 'created his own system'. Combining close readings and detailed analysis of a range of Blake's work, from lyrical songs to later myth, from writing to visual art, this collection of thirty-eight lively and authoritative essays examines what Blake had in common with his contemporaries, the writers who influenced him, and those he influenced in turn. Chapters from an international team of leading scholars also attend to his wider contexts: material, formal, cultural, and historical, to enrich our understanding of, and engagement with, Blake's work. Accessibly written, incisive, and informed by original research, William Blake in Context enables readers to appreciate Blake anew, from both within and outside of his own idiom.

Author : A. S. Crehan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003768319

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Blake in Context by A. S. Crehan Pdf

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1789
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN : BSB:BSB00076234

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Songs of Innocence by William Blake Pdf

Author : Nicholas M. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521620503

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Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake by Nicholas M. Williams Pdf

Scholars have often drawn attention to William Blake's unusual sensitivity to his social context. In this book Nicholas Williams situates Blake's thought historically by showing how through the decades of a long and productive career Blake consistently responded to the ideas, writing, and art of contemporaries. Williams presents detailed readings of several of Blake's major poems alongside Rousseau's Emile, Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Paine's Rights of Man, Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Robert Owen's Utopian Experiments. In so doing, he offers revealing new insights into key Blake texts and draws attention to their inclusion of notions of social determinism, theories of ideology-critique, and Utopian traditions. Williams argues that if we are truly to understand ideology as it relates to Blake, we must understand the practical situation in which the ideological Blake found himself. His study is a revealing commentary on the work of one of our most challenging poets.

Author : Morris Eaves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521786770

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The Cambridge Companion to William Blake by Morris Eaves Pdf

Poet, painter, and engraver William Blake died in 1827 in obscure poverty with few admirers. The attention paid today to his remarkable poems, prints, and paintings would have astonished his contemporaries. Admired for his defiant, uncompromising creativity, he has become one of the most anthologized and studied writers in English and one of the most studied and collected British artists. His urge to cast words and images into masterpieces of revelation has left us with complex, forceful, extravagant, some times bizarre works of written and visual art that rank among the greatest challenges to plain understanding ever created. This Companion aims to provide guidance to Blake s work in fresh and readable introductions: biographical, literary, art historical, political, religious, and bibliographical. Together with a chronology, guides to further reading, and glossary of terms, they identify the key points of departure into Blake s multifarious world and work.

Author : Nicholas Marsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350310216

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William Blake: The Poems by Nicholas Marsh Pdf

William Blake was ignored in his own time. Now, however, his Songs of Innocence and Experience and 'prophetic books' are widely admired and studied. The second edition of this successful introductory text: - Leads the reader into the Songs and 'prophetic books' via detailed analysis of individual poems and extracts, and now features additional insightful analyses - Provides useful sections on 'Methods of Analysis' and 'Suggested Work' to aid independent study - Offers expanded historical and cultural context, and an extended sample of critical views that includes discussion of the work of recent critics - Provides up-to-date suggestions for further reading William Blake: The Poems is ideal for students who are encountering the work of this major English poet for the first time. Nicholas Marsh encourages you to enjoy and explore the power and beauty of Blake's poems for yourself.

Author : Jonathan Roberts
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826488602

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William Blake's Poetry by Jonathan Roberts Pdf

This guide offers an introduction to reading Blake's poetry and includes sections on its contexts, language and style, critical reception and adaptation and influence.

Author : David Weir
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791486405

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Brahma in the West by David Weir Pdf

Examining William Blake's poetry in relation to the mythographic tradition of the eighteenth century and emphasizing the British discovery of Hindu literature, David Weir argues that Blake's mythic system springs from the same rich historical context that produced the Oriental Renaissance. That context includes republican politics and dissenting theology—two interrelated developments that help elucidate many of the obscurities of Blake's poetry and explain much of its intellectual energy. Weir shows how Blake's poetic career underwent a profound development as a result of his exposure to Hindu mythology. By combining mythographic insight with republican politics and Protestant dissent, Blake devised a poetic system that opposed the powers of Church and King.

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547678779

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The Greatest Works of William Blake (With Complete Original Illustrations) by William Blake Pdf

Taking his inspiration from the illuminated manuscripts of the middle ages, Blake invented the process of creating Illuminated Books. Between 1788 and early 1795 Blake published a series of fifteen Illuminated Books. He returned to creating Illuminated Books in 1804 when he began work on Milton (finished in 1808 or later) and Jerusalem. Blake committed himself in the minute particulars of producing his Illuminated Books. The process included creating a mental image, drawing, composing the design and poetry of the plate, engraving, printing, painting, compiling and selling. From inception to final production the color copy of Jerusalem was labored over for sixteen years. William Blake (1757 – 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691001480

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Milton a Poem, and the Final Illuminated Works by William Blake Pdf

Milton is a difficult and cryptic poem for those uninitiated in the ways of Blake's allusive and allegorical style. In an introductory essay, the editors directly address the nature of the poem's complexity, demonstrate how Blake's methods set out to disconcert conventional concepts of time, space, and human identity, and suggest some ways readers coming to Milton for the first time can understand and enjoy the challenges it offers. The editors also present a plate-by-plate commentary on how the illustrations contribute to the creation of a composite, visual-verbal experience. The extensive notes to the newly-edited letterpress text will also assist readers through Milton, its central themes and its byways, its heights and its depths. An equally helpful introduction and notes are provided for the three shorter works. Scholars will find much new information in this volume.

Author : Sarah Haggarty,Jon A Mee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137382450

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William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience by Sarah Haggarty,Jon A Mee Pdf

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) is William Blake's best-known work, containing such familiar poems as 'London', 'Sick Rose' and 'The Tyger'. Evolving over the author's lifetime, the collection was printed by Blake himself on his own press. This Reader's Guide: - Explains the unique development of Songs as an illuminated book - Considers the earliest reactions to the text during Blake's lifetime, and his gathering posthumous reputation in the nineteenth century - Explores modern critical approaches and recent debates - Discusses key topics that have been of abiding interest to critics, including the relationship between text and image in Blake's 'composite art' Insightful and stimulating, this introductory guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who is seeking to navigate their way through the mass of criticism surrounding Blake's most widely-studied work.

Author : Kenneth Edward Smith,Ken Edward Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015047537017

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An Analysis of William Blake's Early Writings and Designs to 1790 by Kenneth Edward Smith,Ken Edward Smith Pdf

This study is informed by a knowledge of Blake seen against the background of the long 18th century. Throughout, the reader is reminded that the Blake of Songs of Innocence and Experience shared a century with Fielding, Hogarth and Sterne; the classification of Blake as a romantic too often overlooks the form and content of satirical modes with which he was familiar. The study places Blake's Songs of Innocence in their historical context, and sites the poet within an historical work that bridges traditional, canonical categories of high culture versus popular culture. The author's aim was to return innocence to its original literary-historical context. Songs of Innocence and other early writings are included in the text.

Author : Margaret Bottrall
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106013025256

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William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience by Margaret Bottrall Pdf

Aphorisms and extracts from letters - Contemporary impressions - Comments and critiques 1863-1907 - Recent studies.

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Longman
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : English poetry
ISBN : IND:30000110601774

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William Blake by William Blake Pdf

This comprehensive selection includes complete texts of all Blake's best known work: The Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Book of Thel, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, America, The Book of Urizen, and Laocoon. All Blake's significant lyric poems are included, and there are generous selections from The Four Zoas, Milton, Jerusalem and The Everlasting Gospel. Each work (including the individual Songs) has an introduction describing a range of critical opinion. The annotation - the most detailed of any single-volume Blake - glosses difficult terms, provides information on Blake's intellectual and poetic sources and his historical contexts, describes significant differences between the unique individual copies of each illuminated book, and discusses all aspects of contemporary Blake scholarship. Modernization addresses the difficulties of Blake's text for first-time readers. The visual aspects of Blake's composite verbal-visual art is fully acknowledged: every design from the illuminated books selected is described in detail. The book also contains overall introductions to discuss critical approaches to Blake's poetry, interpreting his designs, and the issue of modernizing his text.

Author : Jason Allen Snart
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575911094

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The Torn Book by Jason Allen Snart Pdf

"The Torn Book: UnReading William Blake's Marginalia argues for the connection between British poet and painter William Blake's marginalia (the annotations he made in the volumes he owned and borrowed) and the role that often multivalent symbols like pens, writers, readers, and books play throughout his art." "The Torn Book pays particular attention to original Blake items, including the various annotated volumes housed at the Huntington Library, Houghton Library, Cambridge's University Library and Wren Library, Dr. Williams's Library, and the British Library, among others."--BOOK JACKET.