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Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013
Series: Book 35 of 57 - Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
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- Title
- William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- Author
- Haggarty, Sarah, Mee, Jon A.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 023022010X
- ISBN 13
- 9780230220102
- Item weight
- 0.562 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
- Series
- Book 35 of 57: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
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.
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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About the Author
Jon A. Mee is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York, UK.; Sarah Haggarty is University Lecturer in English and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, UK.
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