Blake : Songs of innocence and experience
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Blake : Songs of innocence and experience
（The critics debate / general editor, Michael Scott）
Macmillan, 1989
- : pbk.
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Bibliography: p. 85-88
Includes indexes
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ISBN 9780333444344
Description
This book offers an identification of the studies which have most contributed to our understanding of Blake's "Songs", showing how the different meanings perceived by critics are not mutually exclusive but complementary. The author contends that Blake's vision is more comprehensive than those critics committed to narrowly Marxist or Christian interpretations of his work. "The Critics Debate" series aims to help delineate various critical approaches to specific literary texts, and to introduce the reader to further reading on the subject and to a fuller evaluation of a particular text by illustrating the way it has been approached in a number of contexts.
Table of Contents
General Editor's Preface - Author's Preface - Introduction - PART 1 SURVEY - Defining the Text - Antecedents of Innocence - Reading the Designs - Voices of Innocence - 'The Chimney Sweeper' - Transition and System - Counterparts - Voices of Experience - A Trilogy - PART 2 APPRAISAL - Novitiate: 'Holy Thursday' - Eden: 'The Echoing Green' - Generation: 'The Little Girl Lost' and 'The Little Girl Found' - Prophecy: 'The Tyger' and 'The Fly' - Scripture: 'The Human Abstract' - Redemption: 'To Tirzah' - References - Index to Poems - Index to Critics
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: pbk. ISBN 9780333444351
Description
This book offers an identification of the studies which have most contributed to our understanding of Blake's "Songs", showing how the different meanings perceived by critics are not mutually exclusive but complementary. The author contends that Blake's vision is more comprehensive than those critics committed to narrowly Marxist or Christian interpretations of his work. "The Critics Debate" series aims to help delineate various critical approaches to specific literary texts, and to introduce the reader to further reading on the subject and to a fuller evaluation of a particular text by illustrating the way it has been approached in a number of contexts.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Survey: defining the text
- antecedents of innocence
- reading the designs
- voices of innocence
- "The Chimney Sweeper"
- transition and system
- counterparts
- voices of experience
- a trilogy. Part 2 Appraisal: novitiate - "Holy Thursday"
- Eden - "The Echoing Green"
- generation - "The Little Girl Lost" and "The Little Girl Found"
- prophecy - "The Tyger" and "The Fly"
- scripture - "The Human Abstract
- redemption - "To Tirzah".
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