William Blake

By John Lucas

Book Overview

Bringing together the best key recent writing on Blake, this collection examines him as poet, prophet, social and political critic of his times and visual artist. A number of approaches are represented including Marxist, psychoanalytic, feminist, and deconstructionalist, and these works ultimately affirm Blake as one of the great original geniuses of English art. The essays have been chosen to reveal the contemporary nature of Blake's concerns and to alert the reader to the variety of good criticism devoted to him.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582237106
• ISBN13: 9780582237100
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"