By Hazard Adams
A seminal determine in Romantic poetry and visible arts, William Blake keeps to persuade smooth literary feedback. during this e-book, Blake student risk Adams provides a range of essays that span his lengthy occupation exploring the paintings and considered the groundbreaking artist. themes variety from the symbolic shape in Blake's poem Jerusalem, the area view of Blake on the subject of cultural coverage and the inspiration of contrariety in Blake's writings to the relation of chinese language literary inspiration to that of the West, the serious paintings of Northrop Frye and Murray Krieger and the cultural and educational prestige of the arts. The essays chart the evolution of Adams' personal neo-Blakean literary concept over the last 4 a long time, chronicling an attempt to hunt now not simply a style yet a philosophical base for the perform of literary feedback.
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