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.
Review
“with the increasing appreciation of the nature of marginalia as a genre, Hazard Adams’s study of Blake’s is a timely one. Adams has the fine talents of discussing difficult passages lucidly without simplifying their meanings... all readers...will come away from it with a richer understanding of his thought”― Nbol.com ; “an important and interesting work...this is the first critical work to consider William Blake’s annotations in their entirety”― Oxford Journal.
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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.
About the Author
Professor emeritus at the University of Washington's department of comparative literature, Hazard Adams lives in Shelton, Washington. He is known internationally as a scholar of William Blake, W.B. Yeats, Joyce Cary, and the history of criticism.
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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.
Review
“with the increasing appreciation of the nature of marginalia as a genre, Hazard Adams’s study of Blake’s is a timely one. Adams has the fine talents of discussing difficult passages lucidly without simplifying their meanings... all readers...will come away from it with a richer understanding of his thought”― Nbol.com ; “an important and interesting work...this is the first critical work to consider William Blake’s annotations in their entirety”― Oxford Journal.
From the Inside Flap
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.
About the Author
Professor emeritus at the University of Washington's department of comparative literature, Hazard Adams lives in Shelton, Washington. He is known internationally as a scholar of William Blake, W.B. Yeats, Joyce Cary, and the history of criticism.