William Blake's Conversations

William Blake's Conversations
Author: Gerald Eades Bentley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Dedicated to the analysis of William Blake's conversations, this study examines how the poet's pronunciation and dialect influence the full or partial consonance of his rhymes.

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.

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.

David's Crown

David's Crown
Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1786223082

As well as the name of a virus, a corona is a crown, the pearly glow around the sun in certain astronomical conditions and a poetic form where interlinking lines connect a sequence. It is the perfect name therefore for this new collection of 150 poems by the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite, each one written in response to the Bible’s 150 psalms as they appear in William Coverdale’s timeless translation. The Psalms express every human emotion with disarming honesty, as anger and thankfulness alike are directed at God. All of life is here with its moments of beauty and its times of despair and shame. Like the Psalms themselves, the poems do not avoid the cursing and glorying over the downfall of your enemies, but wrestle honestly with them as we do when we come to say them.

William Blake Now

William Blake Now
Author: John Higgs
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2019-09-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1474614345

'If a thing loves, it is infinite' William Blake A short, impassioned argument for why the visionary artist William Blake is important in the twenty-first century The visionary poet and painter William Blake is a constant presence throughout contemporary culture - from videogames to novels, from sporting events to political rallies and from horror films to designer fashion. Although he died nearly 200 years ago, something about his work continues to haunt the twenty-first century. What is it about Blake that has so endured? In this illuminating essay, John Higgs takes us on a whirlwind tour to prove that far from being the mere New Age counterculture figure that many assume him to be, Blake is now more relevant than ever.

William Blake's Gothic imagination

William Blake's Gothic imagination
Author: Chris Bundock
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2018-04-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526121964

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.

Songs of Innocence

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

William Blake's Religious Vision

William Blake's Religious Vision
Author: Jennifer G. Jesse
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0739177907

In this innovative study, Jesse challenges the prevailing view of Blake as an antinomian and describes him as a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She arrives at this conclusion by contextualizing Blake's works not only within Methodism, but in relation to other religious groups he addressed in his art, including the Established Church, deism, and radical religions. Further, she analyzes his works by sorting out the theological "road signs" he directed to each audience. This approach reveals Blake engaging each faction through its most prized beliefs, manipulating its own doctrines through visual and verbal guide-posts designed to communicate specifically with that group. She argues that, once we collate Blake's messages to his intended audiences--sounding radical to the conservatives and conservative to the radicals--we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in orientation. This thesis also relies on an accurate understanding of eighteenth-century Methodism: Jesse underscores the empirical rationalism pervading Wesley's theology, highlighting differences between Methodism as practiced and as publicly caricatured. Undergirding this project is Jesse's call for more rigorous attention to the dramatic character of Blake's works. She notes that scholars still typically use phrases like "Blake says" or "Blake believes," followed by some claim made by a Blakean character, without negotiating the complex narrative dynamics that might enable us to understand the rhetorical purposes of that statement, as heard by Blake's respective audiences. Jesse maintains we must expect to find reflections in Blake's works of all the theologies he engaged. The question is: what was he doing with them, and why? In order to divine what Blake meant to communicate, we must explore how those he targeted would have perceived his arguments. Jesse concludes that by analyzing the dramatic character of Blake's works theologically through this wide-angled, audience-oriented approach, we see him orchestrating a grand rapprochement of the extreme theologies of his day into a unified vision that integrates faith and reason.