Blake's Prelude
Author: Robert F. Gleckner
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 224
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Author: Robert F. Gleckner
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert F. Gleckner
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert F. Gleckner
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Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780608059716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: N. Rawlinson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-11-05
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0230287239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlake's comic brilliance has been variously dismissed as the nervous ramblings of a neglected genius, the tomfool doodles of a distracted youngster, or a crude tool for destabilizing textual authority. But, for the eighteenth century, comedy played a pivotal role in debates on aesthetics, education, spirituality and morality. This exciting new study blends a close reading of Blake's early work with fascinating historical research to demonstrate that the comic was an essential component of Blake's artistic Vision.
Author: Robert F. Gleckner
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kathryn S. Freeman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-12-01
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 131718808X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is not surprising that visitors to Blake’s cosmology – the most elaborate in the history of British text and design – often demand a map in the form of a reference book. The entries in this volume benefit from the wide range of historical information made available in recent decades regarding the relationship between Blake’s text and design and his biographical, political, social, and religious contexts. Of particular importance, the entries take account of the re-interpretations of Blake with respect to race, gender, and empire in scholarship influenced by the groundbreaking theories that have arisen since the first half of the twentieth century. The intricate fluidity of Blake’s anti-Newtonian universe eludes the fixity of definitions and schema. Central to this guide to Blake's work and ideas is Kathryn S. Freeman's acknowledgment of the paradox of providing orientation in Blake’s universe without disrupting its inherent disorientation of the traditions whereby readers still come to it. In this innovative work, Freeman aligns herself with Blake’s demand that we play an active role in challenging our own readerly habits of passivity as we experience his created and corporeal worlds.
Author: William Blake
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780691037905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreface by David Bindman, General Editor. Foreword. List of Abbreviations. Introduction. The Plates with a transcription of the text. Plates From Other Copies. Commentary on the text and the plates. Appendix. Works Cited.
Author: Robert F. Gleckner
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780838754702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays express a common belief that the study of Romantic literature must be at once professionally serious and personally engaging. Topics discussed range from Wordsworth to Lady Caroline Lamb, and from Blake and Burke to the contemporary Irish poet Paul Muldoon. Each essay also offers close readings of essential works on English and Irish Romanticism. Introducing the collection is a tribute by the celebrated Romanticist Peter Manning.
Author: Mark L. Greenberg
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780814319857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in 1783, Poetical Sketches was William Blake's first volume of poetry, and his only published work to appear in letterpress. This "little book" has been relegated by some critics to the periphery of the Blake canon. Yet the book's uniqueness and authorship have drawn scholars to it, resulting in often illuminating criticism. Speak Silence continues in this line and represents the first and only collection of essays devoted solely to exploring Poetical Sketches. Mark Greenberg's critical introduction traces the historical tendency both to denigrate and to praise the Sketches. The other chapters in this collection, written by distinguished scholars Susan J. Wolfson, Stuart Peterfreund, Thomas A. Vogler, Vincent DeLuca, Nelson Hilton, and Robert F. Gleckner analyze traditional elements of poetry as they appear in the Sketches. This analysis reveals how fully Blake, as a young poet, absorbed these elements and how deftly he manipulated and transvalued them in his early, ambitious, and revolutionary experiments with language, voice, and rhetorical form. This volume also focuses on the Sketches' politics, originality, and complex connections with Blake's poetic precursors and with other cultural institutions. What is most compelling about Speak Silence is the way in which the chapters are in dialogue with one another. The collection resembles a conversation between its notable contributors, inviting readers to witness the developmental process of particular ideas about Blake's early art - and its relation to his later work - as they solidify, are transformed, or dissolve.
Author: Michael Ferber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1107376866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe best way to learn about Romantic poetry is to plunge in and read a few Romantic poems. This book guides the new reader through this experience, focusing on canonical authors - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Blake and Shelley - whilst also including less familiar figures as well. Each chapter explains the history and development of a genre or sets out an important context for the poetry, with a wealth of practical examples. Michael Ferber emphasizes connections between poets as they responded to each other and to great literary, social and historical changes around them. A unique appendix resolves most difficulties new readers of works from this period might face: unfamiliar words, unusual word order, the subjunctive mood and meter. This enjoyable and stimulating book is an ideal introduction to some of the most powerful and pleasing poems in the English language, written in one of the greatest periods in English poetry.