TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beer,John B.
TI  - William Blake: a literary life 
T2  - Literary lives
SN  - 1403939543
AV  - PR4146 .B34 2005
U1  - 821/.7 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Blake, William,
KW  - Blake, William
KW  - Blake, William.
KW  - Poets, English
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Artists
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Artistes
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - fast
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236) and index; Rescuing the human spirit -- Traces of tradition? -- Through satire to innocence -- Love, marriage and sexual lore -- Finding a voice for experience -- The challenge of energy -- Thinking allegorically, imaging symbolically -- 'Vala' and the fate of narrative epic -- 'A slumber on the banks of the ocean' -- Fragmentary modes of epic -- Years of resentment, hints of paradox -- A persisting visionary -- Prophetic afterlife
N2  - "Was Blake mad or one of the sanest people of his time? Or is it better to think of him rather as a well-read, astute cockney visionary? In this new biographical study John Beer weighs the evidence, including new discoveries about his religious upbringing, and elucidates his best writings in an attempt to show why they still appeal to us two centuries after the urgency of his prophetic message was first delivered to a bemused readership. Covering Blake's early career, his major works (such as Songs of Innocence and of Experience) and his work as a visual artist, this new study will be a must for all students, scholars and general enthusiasts of Blake."--Jacket
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