Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic / / David V. Erdman, John E. Grant.

• VerfasserIn: Erdman, David V.,; Grant, John E.,
• MitwirkendeR: Bass, Eben,; Chayes, Irene H.,; England, Martha W.,; Erdman, David V.,; Grant, John E.,; Hagstrum, Jean Η.,; Halloran, William F.,; Johnston, Kenneth R.,; Lesnick, Henry,; McNeil, Helen T.,; Mitchell, W. J. T.,; Nelms, Ben F.,; Quasha, George,; Rose, Edward J.,; Simmons, Robert E.,; Sutherland, John,; Tayler, Irene,; Tolley, Michael J.,; Warner, Janet A.,; Wilkie, Brian,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5065
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (574 p.)

The twenty contributors to this volume offer a new perspective on the relationship between Blake's poetry and his visionary forms. Their illustrated discussions explore and debate the nature of Blake's mixed art and the energetic interaction of text and design.Originally published in 1971.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- A Note on the First Illustration -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Figures -- Key to References -- 1. Apprenticeship at the Haymarket? -- 2. The French Revolution: Revelation’s New Form -- 3. Blake’s Composite Art -- 4. Blake and the Sister-Arts Tradition -- 5. America: New Expanses -- 6. Europe: “to those ychain’d in sleep” -- 7. Urizen: The Symmetry of Fear -- 8. Blake’s Use of Gesture -- 9. Songs of Innocence and of Experience: The Thrust of Design -- 10. The Presence of Cupid and Psyche -- 11. Blake and Urizen -- 12. Ore as a Fiery Paradigm of Poetic Torsion -- 13. Metamorphoses of a Favorite Cat -- 14. Envisioning the First Night Thoughts -- 15. Text and Design in Illustrations of the Book of Job -- 16. Epic Irony in Milton -- 17. The Formal Art of The Four Zoas -- 18. Narrative Structure and the Antithetical Vision of Jerusalem -- 19. Blake’s Cities: Romantic Forms of Urban Renewal -- 20. “Forms Eternal Exist For-ever”: The Covenant of the Harvest in Blake’s Prophetic Poems -- Index -- Plates