Young's Night Thoughts. With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
Young's Night Thoughts. With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes

Author: Edward Young

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-10-04

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13:

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Edward Young's 'Night Thoughts' is a poetic meditation on life, death, and the human condition. Written in blank verse, the book is divided into nine separate 'nights,' each exploring different philosophical themes. With its contemplative tone and rich imagery, 'Night Thoughts' is a prime example of 18th-century English literature, often compared to the works of Romantic poets like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Young's use of allegory and symbolism adds depth to the text, inviting readers to reflect on their own mortality and the transient nature of existence. Young's personal experiences with loss and grief likely influenced the emotional depth of the poetry, making 'Night Thoughts' a powerful and moving work. I highly recommend this book to readers interested in poetry, philosophy, and the exploration of the human spirit. Young's 'Night Thoughts' offers a profound and unforgettable journey through the complexities of life and death.

The Visionary Art of William Blake
The Visionary Art of William Blake

Author: Naomi Billingsley

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-05-10

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1838609652

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William Blake (1757-1827) is considered one of the most singular and brilliant talents that England has ever produced. Celebrated now for the originality of his thinking, painting and verse, he shocked contemporaries by rejecting all forms of organized worship even while adhering to the truth of the Bible. But how did he come to equate Christianity with art? How did he use images and paint to express those radical and prophetic ideas about religion which he came in time to believe? And why did he conceive of Christ himself as an artist: in fact, as the artist, par excellence? These are among the questions which Naomi Billingsley explores in her subtle and wide-ranging new study in art, religion and the history of ideas. Suggesting that Blake expresses through his representations of Jesus a truly distinctive theology of art, and offering detailed readings of Blake's paintings and biblical commentary, she argues that her subject thought of Christ as an artist-archetype. Blake's is thus a distinctively 'Romantic' vision of art in which both the artist and his saviour fundamentally change the way that the world is perceived.