Titlebook: Reading William Blake; Stephen C. Behrendt Book 1992 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1992 epic.John Milton.

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Songs of Innocence and of Experience,f” points in two directions: these may be songs . Innocence and Experience, or they may be songs . (“out of”, sung by figures residing within) those states. In fact they are both, but the presence of “and”, together with a second “of” in the title of the combined volume suggests that Blake wishes to

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Lambeth Prophecies II: History of the Universe,green & pleasant Land” that “in ancient time” “was Jerusalem builded”, and it was there too that it was now to be not simply built but rebuilt (E 95-96; . 1). This is a covenantal view of the restoration of salvation and God’s promise, but with a significant difference. Blake postulated a humanized

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Book 1992their verbal and visual texts forces the involved reader to assume greater responsibility than usual for formulating meaning. This book examines some of the ways in which Blake‘s illuminated poems subvert the customary authority of texts and force readers to reassess both their expectations about re

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Epic Art: , and ,period Blake prepared for John and Ann Flaxman a set of 116 watercolor illustrations to Thomas Gray’s poems. Unlike the Young designs, these seem to have been intended for the Flaxmans alone, there being no apparent plan to engrave any or all of them..

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,Introduction: Reading Blake’s Texts,nally interactive process of reading which the encounter with Blake’s works entails is more dynamic — and frequently more disturbing — than anything for which most readers’ training and previous experience have prepared them. The transaction between author and reader that is mediated through the pri

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Songs of Innocence and of Experience,tion in a fashion unlike any of Blake’s other illuminated works. Not a single, linear poem organized around a narrative “through-line”, this is a . of ., and so expectations and conventions we as readers associate with particular literary genres like the lyric and musical forms like the song figure

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Lambeth Prophecies II: History of the Universe,l in English society generally in the cresting during these years of the tide of millenarian enthusiasm. One facet of this millenarian ferment was the conviction that the English were the Chosen People designated in Genesis, and that the French Revolution was the precipitating event that would trigg