Blake's Night Thoughts

by Jeremy Tambling

Book Overview

Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and Blanchot's writings in the twentieth. Taking 'night' as the breakdown of rational progressive thought and of thought based on concepts of identity, the book reads the lyric poetry, some Prophetic works, including a chapter on The Four Zoas, the illustrations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349521663
• ISBN13: 9781349521661
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"