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Author(s): John Beer
ISBN(s): 9781847600004, 184760000X
Edition: 2Rev e.
File Details: PDF, 5.05 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 184760000X 
ISBN 13: 9781847600004
Author: John Beer

An illustrated study of the social, political and literary thought underlying Blake’s Songs and the Prophetic Books, culminating in Milton. It considers the guiding forces behind Visions of the Daughters of Albion and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, the roles of vision and energy in the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and lyrics such as ‘The Mental Traveller’, Blake’s attempts at mythological interpretation of current events, first in ‘The French Revolution’ and then in the prophetic books America, Europe and The Song of Los, and how Blake’s fourfold vision is employed as a means of interpreting and illustrating major predecessors such as Milton and Chaucer.

John Beer is well known for his work on English Romantic literature. His books include Coleridge the Visionary, Coleridge’s Poetic Intelligence, Blake’s Humanism, Blake’s Visionary Universe, Wordsworth and the Human Heart, Wordsworth in Time, Romantic Consciousness: Blake to Mary Shelley, Post-Romantic Consciousness: Dickens to Sylvia Plath, Romantic Influences, and William Blake: A Literary Life.

Review Comment: “It is a pleasure to find a Blake study as good as Dr Beer’s…. He has written the most just account yet of Blake’s political position’ — Times Literary Supplement

“One of the few guides to which one can concede a certain credit balance of usefulness …. What the author intends [by Blake’s ‘humanism’] is to emphasise (rightly) the characteristic of Blake’s thought expressed in his insistence that Man … is responsible for determining what his responsibility is” — F R Leavis

Blake s Humanism 1st Table of contents:

  • Blake and His Readers
    Explores varying conceptions of Blake’s achievements and his reception among readers.

  • A Fourfold Vision
    Analyzes Blake’s complex allegorical organization in his visionary works.

  • The Energies of Desire
    Investigates the guiding forces behind Visions of the Daughters of Albion and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

  • The Lion and the Rose
    Examines the roles of vision and energy in Songs of Innocence and of Experience and lyrics like “The Mental Traveller”.

  • The Genius of Revolution
    Discusses Blake’s mythological interpretations of current events, particularly in The French Revolution, America, Europe, and The Song of Los.

  • The Descending Vision
    Explores Blake’s developed myth-making as a means of interpreting the artist’s task and previous literature, focusing on Milton.

  • All Things Humanized
    Applies Blake’s fourfold vision to interpret and illustrate major predecessors like Milton and Chaucer.

  • Unwanted Prospero
    Reflects on Blake’s lasting commitment to imaginative vision as a key to human liberty.

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