William Blake

This book was welcomed by its first critics as a magnum opus of undeniable significance.Jacob Bronowski defined its purpose as the establishment of Blake 's thought as part of the classical tradition of anti-materialist...

This provoked intense debate between DL and Robert Duncan . He felt impelled to tell her, I feel that revolution, politics, making history, is one of the great falsehoods—is [Blake 's] Orc in his...

In her 2017 assessment Marina Warner likens the text, as a testament to the horrors of psychosis and convulsive drug therapy that is split between visionary illumination and profound psychological distress, to such writing as...

As tourists MB and her husband were just as interested in cultural events, industries, and industrial and military trade as they were in, for instance, old buildings. On her first visit to London she attended...

ASB later recalled the 1960s as a time of desire to be perpetual children, signified by wearing baby doll dresses and oh-so-innocent daisies as well as by quoting Blake . One of her seminal experiences...

She remained deeply interested in art (she frequented galleries and developed a deep appreciation for Blake , Turner , and the more contemporary Renoir , and Monet ). She also regularly attended the theatre.

The final spin is represented by 8 Home-Computer Terminal, which concludes with a startling evocation of Blake : Rose, thou art sick; a fatal error bugs thy memory banks.SK 's website demonstrates (as...

R. B. Kershner, Jr. (a James Joyce scholar) points out that Joyce read The Sorrows of Satan in 1905 and that the novel has a number of elements that [he] adapts to the form and...

Sister Invention is a new name for or new concept of that creative power that has sometimes been called the Muse, which recalls the way St Francis would address non-human beings as brothers. JK writes...

KT stays with Irish mythology in The Fairy Babe, about a mother whose baby has been replaced by fairies with a changeling child. She figures Ireland in the body of the generous Kathleen who...

Literary admirers of the hymns included Hannah More , Anna Seward , and Elizabeth Carter , who found some passages amazingly sublime. The innumerable children who loved and later remembered them included Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck

Her narratives of these emotional involvements lead her into analysis of the different effects of love on the two sexes. This analysis is founded on two women writers (identifiable although she does not name them)...

The contents are part new, part reprinted. SK notes this in Remarks of the Author, which admits the claims of good taste but declares that fantastic imagination too has its place. She writes in...

Again, the title of this volume recalls Blake : his Songs of Innocence and Experience, which appeared by 1794 incorporating the contents of the earlier Songs of Innocence.

For KR , poetic tradition was that of the major romantic poets, headed by Blake and followed by Coleridge , Yeats , and Edwin Muir . She was at Girton when a generation of Cambridge...