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Reader's Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts.   William Blake is a Romantic poet who remains popular today, in part because his exceptional insight into psychological, political and social issues remains powerfully relevant. The Reader's Guide begins by introducing Blake's major themes including religious, political and social issues and then moves on to reading key works, including Songs of Innocence and Experience and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. It offers  an invaluable introduction to reading Blake's poetry and includes sections on its contexts, language and style, critical reception and adaptation and influence and finally an annotated guide to further reading.

Blake, William, --- Blake, W. --- Blake, William --- Blake, William, 1757-1827 --- Bleĭk, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- בליק, ויליאם, --- בלייק, ויליאם, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Although today William Blake (1757-1827) is recognised as a visionary poet and artist, at the time of his death he was unknown except for his presumed insanity. This highly influential two-volume biography by the barrister Alexander Gilchrist, first published in 1863 and reissued here in its second edition (1880), rescued William Blake from almost complete obscurity. The accepted interpretation of his madness was challenged and his creative talents were brought to the attention of Victorian society by the inclusion of selected writings and artistic works, nearly all previously unpublished. Volume 1 of Gilchrist's book is an account of William Blake's life, combining excerpts from his written works and paintings with detailed biographical information drawn from surviving letters and contemporary accounts.

Poets, English --- Artists --- Blake, William, --- Blake, W. --- Blake, William --- Blake, William, 1757-1827 --- Bleĭk, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- בליק, ויליאם, --- בלייק, ויליאם,

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Prophecy in literature. --- Blake, William, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Blake, W. --- Blake, William --- Blake, William, 1757-1827 --- Bleĭk, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- בליק, ויליאם, --- בלייק, ויליאם,

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In all of his works Blake struggled with the question of how chaos can be assimilated into imaginative order. Blake's own answer changed in the course of his poetic career. Christine Gallant contends that during the ten year period of composition of Blake's first comprehensive epic, The Four Zoas, Blake's myth expanded from a closed, static system to an open, dynamic process. She further argues that it is only through attention to the changing pattern of Jungian archetypes in the poem that one can discern this profound change. Using the depth psychology of Jung, Professor Gallant presents a comprehensive interpretation of Blake's poetry from his early "Lambeth" prophecies to his mature works, The Four Zoas, Milton, and Jerusalem. She offers a Jungian critical approach that respects the work's autonomy, but still suggests how literature is an ongoing imaginative experience in which archetypal symbols affect their literary contexts. What interests the author is the function that the very process of mythmaking had for Blake. Professor Gallant finds that the metaphysical opposition between God and Satan in Blake's earlier work gradually evolves into an interplay of these powers in the later works. The quality of Chaos changes for Blake from something unknown and feared, contrary to Order, to something intimately known and embraced.Originally published in 1979.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.

Thematology --- English literature: authors --- Myth in literature --- Mythe dans la littérature --- Blake, William, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Myth in literature. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Mythe dans la littérature --- Blake, W. --- Bleĭk, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- בליק, ויליאם --- בלייק, ויליאם --- בליק, ויליאם, --- בלייק, ויליאם, --- Блейк, Уильям, --- Blake, William --- Blake, William, 1757-1827

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This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the riddles of the longer poems, the so-called "Prophecies," and a demonstration of Blake's insight that will amaze the modern reader. The first section of the book shows how Blake arrived at a theory of knowledge that was also, for him, a theory of religion, of human life and of art, and how this rigorously defined system of ideas found expression in the complicated but consistent symbolism of his poetry. The second and third parts, after indicating the relation of Blake to English literature and the intellectual atmosphere of his own time, explain the meaning of Blake's poems and the significance of their characters.

Blake, William --- Blake, William, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Blake, W. --- Bleĭk, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- בליק, ויליאם, --- בלייק, ויליאם, --- Blake, William, 1757-1827 --- English literature --- Literature, Victorian --- Victorian literature