Blake's Poetry and Designs: 0 (Norton Critical Editions)

Blake, William; Grant, John E.; Johnson, Mary Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039392498X ISBN 13: 9780393924985

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008

In addition to a broad selection of the poems, the volume includes over 100 images (16 in color), emphasizing the centrality of pictorial representations to Blake's verse. Biographical context is provided through dozens of excerpts from Blake's notebook, letters, marginalia, and other writings. "Criticism" offers twenty wide-ranging commentaries by writers from Blake's contemporaries to present-day critics, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Northrop Frye, Allen Ginsberg, Morris Eaves, Harold Bloom, Alicia Ostriker, John Mee, Saree Makdisi, and Julia Wright. A section on Textual Technicalities, a Chronology of Blake's life and work, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines are also included.

Synopsis:

The most comprehensive introduction to William Blake's poetry and thought available, this volume includes a broad selection of poems in textual form and over 100 plates. Biographical context is provided through excerpts from Blake's notebooks, letters, marginalia and other writings. Included are twenty wide-ranging critical commentaries, a section on textual technicalities, a chronology, a bibliography and an index of titles and first lines.

About the Author:

John E. Grant is Professor Emeritus of English, University of Iowa. He previously taught at the University of Connecticut. His publications include Discussions of William Blake and Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic. Mary Lynn Johnson is Special Assistant Emerita, President's Office, University of Iowa. She is the co-author of Blake's 'Four Zoas': The Design of the Dream.