John Beer, Blake’s Humanism
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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,
The Times Literary Supplement
This book should arouse much fresh interest in Blake’s genius and reawaken the enthusiasm of his admirers
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View Sample PagesAn illustrated study of the social, political and literary thought underlying Blake’s Songs and the Prophetic Books, culminating in Milton.
First published by Manchester University Press. Digitized by Humanities-Ebooks, 2007
Contents
1 Blake and his Readers. Varying conceptions of Blake’s achievement.
2 A Fourfold Vision. Blake, Milton and Allegory: the complex organization of his vision.
3 The energies of Desire. The guiding forces behind Visions of the Daughters of Albion and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
4 The Lion and the Rose. The roles of vision and energy in the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and lyrics such as ‘The Mental Traveller’.
5 The Genius of Revolution. The 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,
6 The Descending Vision. Milton: Developed myth-making as a means of interpreting the artist’s task and previous literature.
7 All Things Humanized. Blake’s fourfold vision employed as a means of interpreting and illustrating major predecessors such as Milton and Chaucer.
8 Unwanted Prospero. Blake’s lasting commitment to imaginative vision as a key to human liberty. Appendix One: The Development od Blake’s Mythology. Appendix Two: The Gates of Paradise: a guide to interpretation.
John Beer
John Beer is well known for his work on English Romantic literature. He has lectured in India and the U.S.A. as well as at Manchester and Cambridge, where he is now Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Peterhouse. 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, Questioning Romanticism (ed.), Romantic Consciousness: Blake to Mary Shelley, Post-Romantic Consciousness: Dickens to Sylvia Plath, Romantic Influences and William Blake: A Literary Life.
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