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William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) is William Blake's best-known work, containing such familiar poems as 'London', 'Sick Rose' and 'The Tyger'. Evolving over the author's lifetime, the collection was printed by Blake himself on his own press.This Reader's Guide:- Explains the unique development of Songs as an illuminated book- Considers the earliest reactions to the text during Blake's lifetime, and his gathering posthumous reputation in the nineteenth century - Explores modern critical approaches and recent debates- Discusses key topics that have been of abiding interest to critics, including the relationship between text and image in Blake's 'composite art'Insightful and stimulating, this introductory guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who is seeking to navigate their way through the mass of criticism surrounding Blake's most widely-studied work.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-11-28
Mått136 x 214 x 16 mm
Vikt280 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieReaders' Guides to Essential Criticism
Antal sidor212
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780230220102

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AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: 'Piping Down the Valleys Wild'1. Producing 'Songs': 'In a Book that All May Read'2. Blake's Contemporaries on 'Songs': Simplicity, Madness, Genius and Swedenborgianism3. Reviving Blake in the 1820s and 1830s: Obituaries, Biographies and the First New Editions4. Enshrining Blake in the 1860s and 1870s: Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism and Counter-Attack5. Blake and the Moderns: Symbolism and Scholarship6. The Post-War Foundations: System, Myth and History7. Freedom and Repression in the 1960s and 1970s: Form, Ideology and Gender8. Blake's Composite Art in the 1980s and 1990s: Textuality and the Materiality of the Book9. Worlding Blake Today: 'Past, Present and Future Sees'NotesBibliographyIndex.