The Vampire Book
The Vampire Book

Author: J Gordon Melton

Publisher: Visible Ink Press

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 945

ISBN-13: 1578593506

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The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.

A Blake Dictionary
A Blake Dictionary

Author: S. Foster Damon

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 1611684439

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The requisite guide to Blake's ideas and symbols

The Early Illuminated Books
The Early Illuminated Books

Author: William Blake

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780691001470

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"The nature of William Blake's genius and of his art is most completely expressed in his Illuminated Books. In order to give full and free expression to his vision Blake invented a method of printing that enabled him to created 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 poet himself that Blake's meaning can be fully experienced."--Publisher's description.

Blake's Gifts
Blake's Gifts

Author: Sarah Haggarty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-09-02

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0521117283

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Examines the idea of 'gift-giving' to reassess a wide range of issues in the thought and work of William Blake.

The Torn Book
The Torn Book

Author: Jason Allen Snart

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9781575911090

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"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.

Reading Blake's Songs
Reading Blake's Songs

Author: Zachary Leader

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 131738122X

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First appearing in 1981, this book was the first full-length study of the Songs of Innocence and Experience to be published in almost fifteen years. The book provides detailed readings of each poem and its accompanying design, to redirect attention to the nature and achievement of the book as a whole, to Songs as a single, carefully unified work of verbal and visual art. Particularly close attention is paid, not only to the designs Blake etched to accompany his poems, but also to the many books and treatises for and about children to which, it is argued, Songs alludes or is indebted. Like so many important works of this period, Songs is shown to be autobiographical in nature, one of Blake’s attempts to order and account for the conflicts and crises of his own art and life. Its story is that of an artist’s growth into and out of vision, and of his gradual realization of the dangers and deficiencies of the prophetic mode.