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Book Synopsis William Blake in Context by : Sarah Haggarty
Download or read book William Blake in Context written by Sarah Haggarty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Blake, poet and artist, is a figure often understood to have 'created his own system'. Combining close readings and detailed analysis of a range of Blake's work, from lyrical songs to later myth, from writing to visual art, this collection of thirty-eight lively and authoritative essays examines what Blake had in common with his contemporaries, the writers who influenced him, and those he influenced in turn. Chapters from an international team of leading scholars also attend to his wider contexts: material, formal, cultural, and historical, to enrich our understanding of, and engagement with, Blake's work. Accessibly written, incisive, and informed by original research, William Blake in Context enables readers to appreciate Blake anew, from both within and outside of his own idiom.
Book Synopsis Songs of Innocence by : William Blake
Download or read book Songs of Innocence written by William Blake and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Blake and the Idea of the Book by : Joseph Viscomi
Download or read book Blake and the Idea of the Book written by Joseph Viscomi and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His analysis of these procedures reveals that the Illuminated Books were produced in small editions and not, as is assumed, one copy at a time and by commission.
Book Synopsis William Blake's Gothic imagination by : Chris Bundock
Download or read book William Blake's Gothic imagination written by Chris Bundock and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake’s literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary.
Book Synopsis Favorite Works of William Blake by : William Blake
Download or read book Favorite Works of William Blake written by William Blake and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gift set includes Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to William Blake by : Morris Eaves
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to William Blake written by Morris Eaves and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, painter, and engraver William Blake died in 1827 in obscure poverty with few admirers. The attention paid today to his remarkable poems, prints, and paintings would have astonished his contemporaries. Admired for his defiant, uncompromising creativity, he has become one of the most anthologized and studied writers in English and one of the most studied and collected British artists. His urge to cast words and images into masterpieces of revelation has left us with complex, forceful, extravagant, some times bizarre works of written and visual art that rank among the greatest challenges to plain understanding ever created. This Companion aims to provide guidance to Blake s work in fresh and readable introductions: biographical, literary, art historical, political, religious, and bibliographical. Together with a chronology, guides to further reading, and glossary of terms, they identify the key points of departure into Blake s multifarious world and work.
Book Synopsis Eternity's Sunrise by : Leo Damrosch
Download or read book Eternity's Sunrise written by Leo Damrosch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and society. He was a counterculture prophet whose art still challenges us to think afresh about almost every aspect of experience—social, political, philosophical, religious, erotic, and aesthetic. He believed that we live in the midst of Eternity here and now, and that if we could open our consciousness to the fullness of being, it would be like experiencing a sunrise that never ends. Following Blake’s life from beginning to end, acclaimed biographer Leo Damrosch draws extensively on Blake’s poems, his paintings, and his etchings and engravings to offer this generously illustrated account of Blake the man and his vision of our world. The author’s goal is to inspire the reader with the passion he has for his subject, achieving the imaginative response that Blake himself sought to excite. The book is an invitation to understanding and enjoyment, an invitation to appreciate Blake’s imaginative world and, in so doing, to open the doors of our perception.
Book Synopsis Imagining Nature by : Kevin Hutchings
Download or read book Imagining Nature written by Kevin Hutchings and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Imagining Nature Kevin Hutchings combines insights garnered from literary history, poststructuralist theory, and the emerging field of ecological literary studies. He considers William Blake's illuminated poetry in the context of the eighteenth-century model of "nature's economy,' a conceptual paradigm that prefigured modern-day ecological insights, describing all earthly entities as integrated parts of a dynamic, interactive system. Hutchings details Blake's sympathy for – and important suspicions concerning – the burgeoning contemporary fascination with such things as environmental ethics, animal rights, and the various fields of scientific naturalism. By focusing on Blake's concern for the relationship between nature and ideology (including the politics of class, gender, and religion) Hutchings avoids the sentimentalism and misanthropic pitfalls all too often associated with environmental commentary. He articulates a distinctively Blakean perspective on current debates in literary theory and eco-criticism and argues that while Blake's peculiar humanism and profound emphasis upon spiritual concerns have led the majority of his readers to regard his work as patently anti-natural, such a view distorts the central political and aesthetic concerns of Blake's corpus. By showing that Blake's apparent hostility toward the natural world is actually a key aspect of his famous critique of institutionalized authority, Hutchings presents Blake's work as an example of "green Romanticism" in its most sophisticated and socially responsive form.
Download or read book The Blake Book written by Martin Myrone and published by Tate. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Blake Book' provides a thorough introduction to the life and work of William Blake, and draws on the vast array of contemporary scholarship, providing a clear-headed overview of Blake's writings and paintings.
Book Synopsis The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by : William Blake
Download or read book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell written by William Blake and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-10-25 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the visionary world of William Blake with his provocative work, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." This groundbreaking text challenges conventional notions of good and evil, inviting readers to explore the intricate relationship between opposing forces in a quest for enlightenment. As Blake unfolds his revolutionary ideas, you’ll be confronted with the radical proposition that heaven and hell are not opposing realms but rather complementary aspects of the human experience. Are you prepared to question everything you thought you knew about morality and existence?Through a blend of poetry and vivid imagery, Blake dismantles the barriers between the sacred and the profane, urging readers to embrace their passions and desires as essential to the divine. His eloquent verses resonate with the pulse of life itself, capturing the essence of human struggle and aspiration. What if the key to understanding our true selves lies in embracing the chaos of our emotions? Blake's work compels you to acknowledge that love and sin are intertwined in the dance of life.Immerse yourself in the rich symbolism and innovative language of this iconic piece, where each line offers a new perspective on the eternal battle between light and darkness. Blake's brilliance challenges you to rethink the boundaries of art and philosophy. Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey that blurs the lines between heaven and hell? This is your opportunity to delve into a masterpiece that has inspired countless thinkers and artists.Seize the chance to own a copy of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" now, and let Blake's visionary insights guide you towards a deeper understanding of the world and your place within it!
Book Synopsis Words of Eternity by : Vincent Arthur De Luca
Download or read book Words of Eternity written by Vincent Arthur De Luca and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Blake called himself a "sublime Artist" and acknowledged his own power to create "the Most Sublime Poetry." Words of Eternity reveals the fundamental importance of the term "sublime" in a defining of Blake's poetic achievement. This first full-length study of Blake and the sublime demonstrates that a sophisticated theory of sublimity permeates his writings, serving him as a personal poetics, a framework in which the difficulties and unusual strategies of the works find their rationale. Vincent De Luca combines historically grounded source study with insights from modern critical theories of textuality to identify Blake's two opposing conceptions of sublimity--a sublime of obscurity, terror, and material power and one of determinate, concentrated intellectual design. De Luca examines the interplay between these two modes from differing perspectives--theoretical, stylistic, and thematic. As the perspectives widen, they embrace many of the speculative systems of Blake's time and reveal these systems as various displaced modalities of an underlying sublime discourse. "Words of Eternity is one of the dozen or so most important books ever written about Blake's poetry. De Luca provides a wealth of new insights on every page."--Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside "With the context that this book supplies, we take a quantum leap in the sense we can make of Blake's project. De Luca opens our eyes to a Blake, and a sublime, that will never again be the same for us."--Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis Walt Whitman in Context by : Joanna Levin
Download or read book Walt Whitman in Context written by Joanna Levin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural, and political - through which to engage Whitman's life and work. Written by distinguished scholars of Whitman and nineteenth-century American literature and culture, this collection synthesizes scholarly and historical sources and brings together new readings and original research.
Book Synopsis Reading William Blake by : Saree Makdisi
Download or read book Reading William Blake written by Saree Makdisi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, exciting and accessible approach to reading William Blake, in which leading scholar Saree Makdisi explores key themes.
Book Synopsis William Blake Vs the World by : John Higgs
Download or read book William Blake Vs the World written by John Higgs and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.
Download or read book William Blake written by Martin Myrone and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William Blake is a universal artist--an inspiration to visual artists, musicians, poets, and performers worldwide as well as everyone who aspires to the ideals of personal, spiritual, and creative liberty. His heroic story has inspired an invigorated generations. His personal struggles during a period of political terror and oppression, his technical innovations, and his political commitment all remain deeply relevant today. This book presents a comprehensive overview of Blake's work as a printmaker, poet, and painter, foregrounding his relationship with the art world of his time and telling the stories behind many of his most iconic images."--
Download or read book William Blake written by William Blake and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his illuminated books,William Blake combined his handwritten text with his exuberant imagery on pages the like of which had not been seen since the great decorated books of the Middle Ages. To read such books as Jerusalem, America and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in cold letterpress bears no comparison to seeing and reading them as Blake conceived them, infused with his sublime and exhilarating colours. At times tiny figures and forms dance among the lines of the text, flames appear to burn up the page, and dense passages of Biblical-sounding text are brought to a jarring halt by startling images of death, destruction and liberation. This edition, produced together with The William Blake Trust, contains all the pages of Blakes twenty or so illuminated books reproduced in true size, an appendix with all Blakes text set in type and an introduction by the noted Blake scholar, David Bindman. They can at last become part of the lives of all lovers of art and poetry.
Download or read book Divine Images written by Jason Whittaker and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although relatively obscure during his lifetime, William Blake has become one of the most popular English artists and writers, through poems such as “The Tyger” and “Jerusalem,” and images including The Ancient of Days. Less well-known is Blake’s radical religious and political temperament and that his visionary art was created to express a personal mythology that sought to recreate an entirely new approach to philosophy and art. This book examines both Blake’s visual and poetic work over his long career, from early engravings and poems to his final illustrations, to Dante and the Book of Job. Divine Images further explores Blake’s immense popular appeal and influence after his death, offering an inspirational look at a pioneering figure.
