Blake: Prophet Against EmpireCourier Corporation, 1991 M01 1 - 582 pages In this volume, a leading Blake scholar shows how the political and social events and movements of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries influenced or inspired many of Blake's finest poems: "America, Europe, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The French Revolution, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, the Four Zoas" and numerous others. While Blake's poems can be read on many levels, this in-depth criticial study demonstrates that much of the strange symbolism of his poetry represents a literary campaign against the political tyranny of the day. |
Contents
War Unchained 3886 | 20 |
Republican Art | 30 |
The Enormous Plagues | 56 |
English Genius and the Main Chance 89 855 | 89 |
We Who Are Philosophers | 115 |
First Voice of the Morning | 149 |
The Eternal Hell Revives | 175 |
Seeking the Trump of Doom | 201 |
PEACE? | 361 |
Take the World with Me | 363 |
Mad Again | 370 |
Soft Repentant Moan | 377 |
ENDLESS DESTRUCTION? | 391 |
Another England There | 393 |
O Voltaire Rousseau | 416 |
What Movd Milton | 423 |
Visions of the Daughters | 226 |
The Fatness of the Earth | 243 |
The Secret Child | 264 |
Infinite London | 270 |
When Thought Is Closed | 283 |
The Lion the Wolf | 309 |
Under the Great Work Master | 329 |
In the Tents of Prosperity | 341 |
A Wondrous Harvest | 350 |
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