Blake's 'Innocence' And 'Experience' Retraced (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism)

This major work of historical and interpretative scholarship draws upon fresh evidence to set the Songs in a new perspective. Blake's etchings are substantially discussed alongside the poems they illustrate. The plates of both Innocence and Experience are considered in detail as Blake's response to social circumstances between 1782 and 1794. The reader is asked to re-think the nature of ?he Two Contrary States', and the relationship of the designs to the understanding of Blake.

• • Author: Stanley Gardner
• • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• • Publication Date: May 08, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 211 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472509897
• • ISBN-13: 9781472509895