Hazard Adams

Blake's Margins

An Interpretive Study of the Annotations

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Produktbeschreibung

Known for his prophetic and imaginative works of poetry, painting, and printmaking, William Blake was also a prolific reader and annotator of other writers' works. This is the first work of criticism to consider Blake's annotations in their entirety, and it covers such topics as art, poetry, theology, madness and philosophy, as well as the authors Lavater, Swedenborg, Bacon, Spurzheim, Berkeley, and Wordsworth, among others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9780786445363
• ISBN-10: 078644536X
• Artikelnr.: 26572005

Autorenporträt

The late Hazard Adams was professor emeritus at the University of Washington's department of comparative literature. He was known internationally as a scholar of William Blake, W.B. Yeats, Joyce Cary, and the history of criticism. He lived in Shelton, Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface     
Introduction     
1. Annotations to Johann Caspar Lavater's Aphorisms on Man     
2. Annotations to Emanuel Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell, Divine Love and
Divine Wisdom, and Divine Providence     
3. Annotations to Bishop Richard Watson's An Apology for the Bible     
4. Annotations to Sir Francis Bacon's Essays Moral, Economical, and
Political     
5. Annotations to Henry Boyd's A Translation of the Inferno of Dante
Alighieri     
6. Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses on Art     
7. Annotations to J. C. Spurzheim's Observations on the Deranged
Manifestations of the Mind, or Insanity     
8. Annotations to Bishop George Berkeley's Siris     
9. Annotations to William Wordsworth's Poems and Preface to The Excursion
     
10. Annotations to Robert John Thornton's The Lord's Prayer, Newly
Translated     
11. Addendum     
12. A Note on Blake's Reading     
Index