Blake's margins : an interpretive study of the annotations / Hazard Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Hazard, 1926-2023.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blake, William, 1757-1827--Criticism and interpretation.

Blake, William.

Blake, William, 1757-1827--Knowledge and learning--Literature.

Blake, William, 1757-1827.

Literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

vii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2009]

Summary:

"Known for his prophetic and imaginative works of poetry, painting, and printmaking, the Romantic artist William Blake was also a prolific reader and annotator of other writers' works. This is the first work of criticism to consider Blake's annotations in their entirety, and it covers such authors as Lavater, Swedenborg, Bacon, Spurzheim, Berkeley, and Wordsworth, among others"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Annotations to Johann Caspar Lavater's Aphorisms on Man 7

2 Annotations to Emanuel Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell, Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, and Divine Providence 28

3 Annotations to Bishop Richard Watson's An Apology for the Bible 61

4 Annotations to Sir Francis Bacon's Essays Moral, Economical, and Political 81

5 Annotations to Henry Boyd's A Translation of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri 97

6 Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses on Art 109

7 Annotations to J. C. Spurzheim's Observations on the Deranged Manifestations of the Mind, or Insanity 139

8 Annotations to Bishop George Berkeley's Siris 150

9 Annotations to William Wordsworth's Poems and Preface to The Excursion 160

10 Annotations to Robert John Thornton's The Lord's Prayer, Newly Translated 177

11 Addendum 193

12 A Note on Blake's Reading 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786445363

078644536X

OCLC:

386709562