Author: Saree Makdisi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521763037
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
A new, exciting and accessible approach to reading William Blake, in which leading scholar Saree Makdisi explores key themes.
Reading William Blake
Author: Saree Makdisi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521763037
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
A new, exciting and accessible approach to reading William Blake, in which leading scholar Saree Makdisi explores key themes.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521763037
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
A new, exciting and accessible approach to reading William Blake, in which leading scholar Saree Makdisi explores key themes.
A Guide to the Books of William Blake for Innocent and Experienced Readers
Author: Henry Summerfield
Publisher: Colin Smythe Publication
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The writings of William Blake were not understood by his contemporaries or the Victorians, and it was only in 1910, with the publication of Joseph Wicksteed's Blake's Vision of the Book of Job, that the long process of comprehending Blake's works seriously began. Part 1 of the present work consists of twelve chapters that are primarily intended to lead the reader who has little or no acquaintance with Blake's more difficult works through all his books. These consist of Poetical Sketches, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, three early prose tractates, the eleven shorter prophetic books (including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell), the lyrics of the Pickering Manuscript, The Four Zoas, Milton, Jerusalem, The Gates of Paradise, The Ghost of Abel and Illustrations of The Book of Job. The reader who wishes to explore a work more fully can proceed to Part II, where a headnote outlines the main scholarly views of its structure and meaning. There are two indexes providing ready access to explanations of terms and proper names.
Publisher: Colin Smythe Publication
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The writings of William Blake were not understood by his contemporaries or the Victorians, and it was only in 1910, with the publication of Joseph Wicksteed's Blake's Vision of the Book of Job, that the long process of comprehending Blake's works seriously began. Part 1 of the present work consists of twelve chapters that are primarily intended to lead the reader who has little or no acquaintance with Blake's more difficult works through all his books. These consist of Poetical Sketches, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, three early prose tractates, the eleven shorter prophetic books (including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell), the lyrics of the Pickering Manuscript, The Four Zoas, Milton, Jerusalem, The Gates of Paradise, The Ghost of Abel and Illustrations of The Book of Job. The reader who wishes to explore a work more fully can proceed to Part II, where a headnote outlines the main scholarly views of its structure and meaning. There are two indexes providing ready access to explanations of terms and proper names.
Reading William Blake
Author: S. Behrendt
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
William Blake's illuminated poems challenge their readers to participate fully in a highly interactive process of reading. The complex interaction of their verbal and visual texts forces the involved reader to assume greater responsibility than usual for formulating meaning. This book examines some of the ways in which Blake's illuminated poems subvert the customary authority of texts and force readers to reassess both their expectations about reading and their customary responses to words and visual images alike.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
William Blake's illuminated poems challenge their readers to participate fully in a highly interactive process of reading. The complex interaction of their verbal and visual texts forces the involved reader to assume greater responsibility than usual for formulating meaning. This book examines some of the ways in which Blake's illuminated poems subvert the customary authority of texts and force readers to reassess both their expectations about reading and their customary responses to words and visual images alike.
A Visit to William Blake's Inn
Author: Nancy Willard
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152938239
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A collection of poems, sung and spoken, which tell of an imaginary inn run by William Blake and of a menagerie of guests who visit the inn and creatures who run the inn.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152938239
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A collection of poems, sung and spoken, which tell of an imaginary inn run by William Blake and of a menagerie of guests who visit the inn and creatures who run the inn.
Songs of Innocence
Author: William Blake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Milton a Poem, and the Final Illuminated Works
Author: William Blake
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691001487
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691001487
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
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.
Favorite Works of William Blake
Author: William Blake
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486290867
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gift set includes Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486290867
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gift set includes Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
Poems
Author: William Blake
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101973145
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
William Blake is one of England’s most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps. In this collection Patti Smith brings together her personal favorites of Blake’s poems, including the complete Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, to give a singular picture of this unique genius, whom she calls in her moving introduction “the spiritual ancestor” of generations of poets.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101973145
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
William Blake is one of England’s most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps. In this collection Patti Smith brings together her personal favorites of Blake’s poems, including the complete Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, to give a singular picture of this unique genius, whom she calls in her moving introduction “the spiritual ancestor” of generations of poets.
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE (With Illuminated Manuscript)
Author: William Blake
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027233208
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (first published in 1794), an expansion of Blake's first illuminated book Songs of Innocence. The poems and artwork were reproduced by copperplate engraving and colored with washes by hand. Blake republished Songs of Innocence and Experience several times, often changing the number and order of the plates. The spellings, punctuation and capitalizations are those of the original Blake manuscripts. 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.
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027233208
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (first published in 1794), an expansion of Blake's first illuminated book Songs of Innocence. The poems and artwork were reproduced by copperplate engraving and colored with washes by hand. Blake republished Songs of Innocence and Experience several times, often changing the number and order of the plates. The spellings, punctuation and capitalizations are those of the original Blake manuscripts. 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.
William Blake Vs the World
Author: John Higgs
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781474614368
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Fascinating' The Times 'Blakeian in its singularity' New Statesman 'A wonderful adventure' Irish Times 'Rich, complex and original' Tom Holland 'A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction' Times Literary Supplement Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. In this radical new biography, we return to a world of riots, revolutions and radicals, discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics and comparative religion to look afresh at Blake's life and work - and, crucially, his mind. Taking the reader on wild detours into unfamiliar territory, John Higgs places the bewildering eccentricities of a most singular artist into context and shows us how Blake can help us better understand ourselves.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781474614368
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Fascinating' The Times 'Blakeian in its singularity' New Statesman 'A wonderful adventure' Irish Times 'Rich, complex and original' Tom Holland 'A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction' Times Literary Supplement Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. In this radical new biography, we return to a world of riots, revolutions and radicals, discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics and comparative religion to look afresh at Blake's life and work - and, crucially, his mind. Taking the reader on wild detours into unfamiliar territory, John Higgs places the bewildering eccentricities of a most singular artist into context and shows us how Blake can help us better understand ourselves.