William Blake

ML defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source. An ecstatic state is one in which...

Early in the memoir, she discusses her family's relationship with William Blake and the influence of his art on her life. She claims that just one of his artistic works possessed her, and its hold...

ML dedicated this novel to her son Jonathan. She took her title from Blake 's The Little Boy Lost: Father, father where are you going? / Oh, do not walk so fast! / Speak...

The title is a quotation from William Blake 's Introduction to Songs of Experience. This poem begins, Hear the voice of the Bard! and concludes, The starry floor, / The wat'ry shore, / Is...

Early in her career KR was known as a commentator on contemporary or near-contemporary, modernist poetry: a volume of her reviews written between January 1941 and March 1951 was published in 2002 as Defining the...

In this dedication she was taking a stand against the position of her own party, the Irish Nationalists, who had called for Wyndham's resignation (tendered in March this year) from his position as Chief Secretary...

In this work the Leavises argue (radically modifying the view stated in The Great Tradition) that Dickens was an inheritor of Shakespeare and Blake , and a major influence on the formation of the...

Once more the titles provoke curiosity. They include Venice, Now and Then, Grow Old Along with Me, the Best Is Yet to Be (opening line of a poem by Robert Browning ), Yellow...

In 1972 KR published Yeats , the Tarot, and the Golden Dawn, an essay discussing the work of Yeats and Blake , as New Yeats Papers volume 2. She followed this in 1974 with...

MW 's Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and its Costs (in the Chatto Counterblasts Series) lambasted the British government for failing to provide an adequate standard of living for children.

EF explicitly addressed to grandparents her Tales of Innocence and Experience. An Exploration, which is both a memoir and a collection of revisions of fairy-tales.

For Mary King Patterson of the New York Daily News (a personal friend), MBL wrote It Is Happening Now, about England at war (an imaginary war, since the story was complete some months before...

In 1979 she published From Blake to A Vision, an essay arguing that both Yeats and Blake fall within the central and primary tradition of British Poetry. This publication was volume 17...

This account of her life from childhood to the age of twenty takes its title from a poem by William Blake . The poem's speaker is caught by a Maiden while dancing in the wild...

Juliana Ewing called MG 's collection of three stories, The Human Face Divine and Other Tales (titled from Paradise Lost), 1859, a very characteristic volume.