William Blake's Poetry

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8860-2
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 184 g

Reihe: Reader's Guides

This Reader's Guide provides a short, clear, accessible introduction to reading Blake.

William Blake (1757-1827) the English poet, painter and engraver was one of the earliest and greatest figures of Romanticism.
- Student-friendly features include discussion points, questions, suggestions for further study and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

Reader's Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts.

William Blake is a Romantic poet who remains popular today, in part because his exceptional insight into psychological, political and social issues remains powerfully relevant. The Reader's Guide begins by introducing Blake’s major themes including religious, political and social issues and then moves on to reading key works, including Songs of Innocence and Experience and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. It offers an invaluable introduction to reading Blake’s poetry and includes sections on its contexts, language and style, critical reception and adaptation and influence and finally an annotated guide to further reading.

Zielgruppe

Introductory Undergraduate, Upper Level Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Contexts
2. Language, Style and Form
3. Reading Blake
4. Critical Reception and Publishing History
5. Adaptation, interpretation and influence
6. Guide to Further Reading
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Roberts is the Paul O'Flinn Memorial Early Career Fellow in Romanticism at Oxford Brookes University. He previously worked as a college lecturer at the University of Oxford.