Blake's Poetry and Designs : A Norton Critical Edition Paperback / softback
by William Blake
Edited by John E. (University of Iowa Emeritus) Grant, Mary Lynn (University of Iowa Emeritus) Johnson
Part of the Norton Critical Editions series
Paperback / softback
Description
In addition to a broad selection of the poems, the volume includes over 100 images (16 in color), emphasizing the centrality of pictorial representations to Blake’s verse.
Biographical context is provided through dozens of excerpts from Blake’s notebook, letters, marginalia, and other writings. “Criticism” offers twenty wide-ranging commentaries by writers from Blake’s contemporaries to present-day critics, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Northrop Frye, Allen Ginsberg, Morris Eaves, Harold Bloom, Alicia Ostriker, John Mee, Saree Makdisi, and Julia Wright.
A section on Textual Technicalities, a Chronology of Blake’s life and work, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines are also included.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:656 pages
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:15/01/2008
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- ISBN:9780393924985
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:656 pages
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:15/01/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780393924985
