William Blake and the Moderns

William Blake and the Moderns
Author: Robert J. Bertholf
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1983-06-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780791496640

Robert Bertholf and Annette Levitt have assembled thirteen essays that establish Blake as a "central voice molding modern literature and thought." The essays in this volume examine Blake's influence on modern poetry, the modern novel, and modern thought from various critical approaches. This collection maps out the lines of direct literary influences and indirect intellectual affinities that make up the tradition of enacted form. Through the use of various aspects of Blake's form and ideas, this book reasserts the idea of continuity, the drive for wholeness, and the arrival of new poetic forms. Blake is considered one of the major and most modern of Romantics. This collection positions him as a precursor of the modern, using his vision and poetry as a base for discussing a central issue in literary theory today—influence and the literary tradition—just how is the legacy of a literary artist passed on, and how is it resurrected in the works of subsequent generations.

William Blake

William Blake
Author: Martin Myrone
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0691198314

"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."--

Songs of Innocence

Songs of Innocence
Author: William Blake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 35
Release: 1789
Genre: Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN:

The Visionary Art of William Blake

The Visionary Art of William Blake
Author: Naomi Billingsley
Publisher: T&T Clark
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780567694027

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. In drawing upon contemporaneous religious writings and artistic representations of similar subjects, this book presents an historically grounded account of Blake's oeuvre. It offers new interpretations of his individual works while also identifying textual and pictorial sources that previously have been overlooked. It will have strong interdisciplinary appeal: to intellectual historians; scholars and students of religion and literature; art historians; and all those interested in the vivid figural articulation of a uniquely English theological radicalism.

William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s

William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s
Author: Saree Makdisi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0226502619

Modern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. But with this pioneering study, Saree Makdisi develops a reliable and comprehensive framework for understanding these peculiarities. According to Makdisi, Blake's poetry and drawings should compel us to reconsider the history of the 1790s. Tracing for the first time the many links among economics, politics, and religion in his work, Makdisi shows how Blake questioned and even subverted the commercial, consumerist, and political liberties that his contemporaries championed, all while developing his own radical aesthetic.

Blake and Modern Literature

Blake and Modern Literature
Author: E. Larrissy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2006-08-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230627447

William Blake is one of the most important influences on twentieth-century literature. This study will ask why he is a figure central to the Modernist re-definition of past art. He also appears to be an acceptable sage for postmodernists, he can be associated with an opposition to authority without imposing one version of his own mythology.

A Visit to William Blake's Inn

A Visit to William Blake's Inn
Author: Nancy Willard
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1981
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780152938222

A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests and residents, human and animal, at William Blake's inn.

William Blake and the Moderns

William Blake and the Moderns
Author: Robert J. Bertholf
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1982
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780873956154

Robert Bertholf and Annette Levitt have assembled thirteen essays that establish Blake as a "central voice molding modern literature and thought." The essays in this volume examine Blake's influence on modern poetry, the modern novel, and modern thought from various critical approaches. This collection maps out the lines of direct literary influences and indirect intellectual affinities that make up the tradition of enacted form. Through the use of various aspects of Blake's form and ideas, this book reasserts the idea of continuity, the drive for wholeness, and the arrival of new poetic forms. Blake is considered one of the major and most modern of Romantics. This collection positions him as a precursor of the modern, using his vision and poetry as a base for discussing a central issue in literary theory today--influence and the literary tradition--just how is the legacy of a literary artist passed on, and how is it resurrected in the works of subsequent generations.

William Blake Vs the World

William Blake Vs the World
Author: John Higgs
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-05-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781474614368

'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.