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William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience "Haggarty, Sarah"

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ; Readers' Guides to Essential CriticismPublication details: United Kingdom Palgrave Macmillan 28/11/2013Description: 212 PaperbackISBN:
  • 9780230220102
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.7 SAR
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Summary: "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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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.

Literary studies: poetry & poets

"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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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements (p. viii)
  • List of Abbreviations (p. ix)
  • Introduction: 'Piping down the valleys wild' (p. 1)
  • Chapter 1 Producing Songs: 'In a Book that All May Read' (p. 6)
  • Chapter 2 Blake's Contemporaries on Songs: Simplicity, Madness, Genius, and Swedenborgianism
  • Chapter 3 Reviving Blake in the 1820s and 1830s: Obituaries, Biographies, and the First New Editions (p. 42)
  • After commenting on obituaries of Blake, this chapter considers early, broadly admiring, posthumous biographies by John Thomas Smith and Allan Cunningham, before turning to examine the first re-edition of Songs by John James Garth Wilkinson.
  • Chapter 4 Enshrining Blake in the 1860s and 1870s: Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, and Counter-Attack (p. 56)
  • Chapter 5 Blake and the Moderns: Symbolism and Scholarship (p. 81)
  • Chapter 6 The Post-War Foundations: System, Myth, and History (p. 104)
  • Chapter 7 Freedom and Repression in the 1960s and 1970s: Form, Ideology, and Gender (p. 124)
  • Chapter 8 Blake's Composite Art in the 1980s and 1990s: Textuality and the Materiality of the Book (p. 145)
  • Chapter 9 Worlding Blake Today: 'Past, Present and Future Sees' (p. 163)
  • Notes (p. 181)
  • Bibliography (p. 184)
  • Index (p. 197)

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