Focusing on the Songs of Innocence and Experience, this book uses close analysis and interpretation of individual poems to build the reader's confidence when approaching Blake's lyrics and meeting his thought. Chapters on innocence and experience, the natural world, society and personal relationships move from the lyrics and take the reader on towards the later and longer poems, Blake's "Prophetic Books". In the second part, information about Blake's life and work and a comparison of three important critical views, as well as useful suggestions for further reading, provide a bridge towards further study.
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Nicholas Marsh is teacher of English at Francis Holland School, London.
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The aim of this book is to introduce the reader to Blake's thought, by way of the Songs of Innocence and Experience, and at the same time equip the reader to approach blake's symbolic Prophetic Books with confidence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
watry shore, lonely fen, slumberous mass, grey despair, pleasant glee, bondage bound, wilt thou turn, immortal day, selfish father, chimney sweeper, deep surprise, marriage hearse, narrow chinks, crimson joy, maiden queen, covering cherub, selfish fear, metrical analysis, little boy lost Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prophetic Books, William Blake, Songs of Experience, Albion's Angel, Tom Dacre, The First Book of Urizen, Pretty Rose, Proverbs of Hell, Four Zoas, God of Genesis, Paradise Lost, The Mental Traveller, The Prelude, Thomas Butts, Further Reading, Lyrical Ballads, The Book of Thel, Northrop Frye, Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Stone of Night, Broad Street, Proverb of Hell, Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Bard of Experience, Fountain Court New!
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The aim of this book is to introduce the reader to Blake's thought, by way of the Songs of Innocence and Experience, and at the same time equip the reader to approach blake's symbolic Prophetic Books with confidence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
watry shore, lonely fen, slumberous mass, grey despair, pleasant glee, bondage bound, wilt thou turn, immortal day, selfish father, chimney sweeper, deep surprise, marriage hearse, narrow chinks, crimson joy, maiden queen, covering cherub, selfish fear, metrical analysis, little boy lost Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prophetic Books, William Blake, Songs of Experience, Albion's Angel, Tom Dacre, The First Book of Urizen, Pretty Rose, Proverbs of Hell, Four Zoas, God of Genesis, Paradise Lost, The Mental Traveller, The Prelude, Thomas Butts, Further Reading, Lyrical Ballads, The Book of Thel, Northrop Frye, Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Stone of Night, Broad Street, Proverb of Hell, Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Bard of Experience, Fountain Court New!
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- Songs of Innocence (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) by William Blake on 42 pages
- Songs of Innocence and Experience: Two Complete Books by William Blake on 23 pages
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Oxford Paperbacks) by William Blake on 19 pages
- THE BOOK OF URIZEN by William Blake on 13 pages
- Book Of Urizen, The (BCL1-PR English Literature) by William Blake on 13 pages
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- Romanticism and Colonial Disease (Medicine and Culture) by Alan Bewell in Front Matter, page 92, and page 94
- William Blake: the Poems (Analysing Texts) by Nicholas Marsh in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Benjamin Britten: A Guide to Research (Routledge Music Bibliographies) by Peter J. Hodgson on page 212, and Back Matter
- American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World by Susan Scott Parrish in Front Matter, and page 268
- Life of William Blake by Thomas Wright in Front Matter, and page 23
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