'Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It is a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in drearily pedestrian prose, frequently ridiculous and wilfully bizarre. Needless to say, I doubt you'll believe a word of it.' So starts the extraordinary tale of Edward Moon, detective, ...
The nature of William Blake's genius is most completely expressed in his Illuminated Books. As poet/artist Blake invented a method of printing that enabled him to create works in which words and images combine to form pages uniquely rich in content and beautiful in form. It is only through the pages as originally conceived and published by the ...
Peter Ackroyd has written an intellectual biography of William Blake, placing the artist in the context of his times and explicating Blake's unique vision as it was expressed in his work. He sees Blake as a perceptive social critic whose epic poems offer a vision of spiritual renewal.
This biography of William Blake, one of English arts and letters' most important renegade visionaries, concentrates on the events of his life and the artistry of his engraving.
Inspired by the work of poet William Blake, this book of poetry creates a world in which Blake runs an inn inhabited by very unusual guests. Staffed by dragons, angels, and a rabbit, the inn welcomes such visitors as the Man in the Marmalade Hat, the King of the Cats, a wise cow, a bouquet of tired sunflowers, and a tiger requesting a bedtime ...
Centered on the concept of the naive and innocent child, Blake's SONGS OF INNOCENCE represent pastoral worlds in which the child lives a safe and protected life of simple joys. In SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, many of the poems refer directly to their counterparts in the earlier volume, providing a different perspective: The world he presents is the city ...
The most comprehensive introduction to William Blake's poetry and thought available, this volume includes a broad selection of poems in textual form and over 100 plates. Biographical context is provided through excerpts from Blake's notebooks, letters, marginalia and other writings. Included are twenty wide-ranging critical commentaries, a section ...
No work has challenged its readers like Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". His "Proverbs of Hell" have been culled for the slogans of student protest and become axioms of modern thought. Iconoclastic, bizarre, unprecedented, it is all of these. Most extraordinary is the revolutionary method of its making. The "Bodleian Library" copy is one ...
Northrop Frye's first book, published in 1947, is a study of the poetry of William Blake, who was a central figure to whom Frye later returned in essays and books. Blake represents two of Frye's enduring interests, the Bible and literature.
The first and most popular of Blake's famous "Illuminated Books," in a facsimile edition reproducing all 31 brightly colored plates. Additional printed text of each poem.
E. P. Thompson's long-awaited book on William Blake was published shortly after the historian's death in August 1993. Acclaimed as one of his best and most deeply felt works, it appears now for the first time in paperback. Written with a vivid passion, and bearing the marks of Thompson's lifelong struggle against authoritarian and anti ...
There has never been a book about Blake's last period, from his meeting with John Linnell in 1818 to his death in 1827, although it includes some of his greatest works. In The Traveller in the Evening, Morton Paley argues that this late phase involves attitudes, themes, and ideas that are either distinctively new or different in emphasis from what ...
Penetrating commentary on the Job story as a numinous, archetypal event, and as a paradigm for conflicts of duty that can lead to enhanced consciousness.
Many of these poems refer directly to their counterparts in SONGS OF INNOCENCE, providing a different perspective: The world he presents is the city of London with all its horrors and dangers, including poverty, sickness, oppression, and war. The Lamb gives way to the Tyger, the chimney sweeper's agonies are made palpable, and the Nurse who, in ...
Professor Bloom has written a lengthy introduction and presents essays by major critics from a variety of perspectives on the work of the great English poet William Blake.
"Poetical Sketches" was the first and only volume of William Blake's poetry printed in his lifetime. Long unavailable in its entirety as a single volume, this edition is reproduced from an extremely rare copy of the original 1783 book, cared for by the City of Westminster Archive Centre, and contains corrections to the printed text hand-written by ...
Writing became a widespread practice only in the last four hundred years. Before written texts could record and preserve the stories of a culture, cloth was one of the primary modes for transmitting social messages. In Weaving the Word, Kathryn Sullivan Kruger examines the link between written texts and woven textiles.
First full-length biography (1863) covers Blake's childhood, student years, trial for treason, his "madness," neglect by the public, declining health and untimely death. Insightful commentary on the poet's works. 40 Blake illus.
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