William Blake

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Standard Name: Blake, William

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Literary responses Leonora Carrington
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...
Literary responses L. S. Bevington
Unlike LSB 's first volume of poetry, this achieved some success in literary circles while it was largely ignored by the scientific community.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press.
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The Academy comprehensively panned it, terming it flatulent trash...
Literary responses Susanna Blamire
In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
An article in the Journal of the Lakeland Dialect Society in 1947 argued that her best work was...
Literary responses Emily Brontë
Since the early criticism which took its lead from Charlotte's biographical portrait, a biographical and hagiographic industry has arisen around all three Brontë sisters and their home in Haworth. A. Mary F. Robinson published...
Literary responses Denise Levertov
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...
Literary responses Kathleen Raine
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...
Occupation Algernon Charles Swinburne
Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake ...
politics Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Yet suffrage did not cease to be her goal. She was instrumental, after the passing of the Representation of the People Act giving the vote to women over thirty in February 1918, in getting the...
Publishing Mary Wollstonecraft
A second edition of MW 's Original Stories from Real Life was published with her name, with illustrations by William Blake .
It is dated from one of the engravings.
Ferguson, Moira, and Janet Todd. Mary Wollstonecraft. Twayne.
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Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan.
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Publishing Mary Wollstonecraft
This book (several times reprinted in England and America, but now rare) has often been omitted from lists of her works. Most of the illustrations, which were added in the second edition, 1791, are by...
Publishing Margaret Atwood
The Cranbrook Academy of Art at Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, began in 1964 to issue MA 's portfolios jointly produced with artist Charles Pachter . In 1966 it published fifteen copies each of: Speeches for...
Publishing Maureen Duffy
Her title, and her epigraph, come from Chekhov 's The Cherry Orchard, and Moscow functions for the English characters in the novel as an impossible utopia. In the USA the novel was titled All...
Publishing Mary Lamb
In fact Mary had written the versions of all the comedies and histories, while Charles did the tragedies only. The suppression of her name was not (as the Feminist Companion suggests) due to an error...
Publishing Sarah Fielding
The preface sounds condescending today, yet it offers high literary praise. Henry brushed up his sister's grammar and replaced colloquial words and expressions with more formal ones. He also altered her punctuation, notably removing her...
Reception Dora Carrington
Before she began painting, Carrington mused in a letter to Lytton Strachey about what she had seen: Doré , or Blake could hardly have conceived anything more frenzied.
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press.
86
Jane Hill finds in the work...

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