William Blake’s Poetry. By Jonathan Roberts
William Blake is a poet of both simple directness and of multilayered irony, the writer of pastoral ballads but also of obscure mythopoeia: ‘deep dissimulation is the only defence an honest man has left’, as Erin laments in his Jerusalem. That demanding poem, like most of Blake’s books, combines wor...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Literature and theology
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 481-482 |
| Review of: | William Blake's poetry (London [u.a.] : Continuum, 2007) (Burdon, Christopher)
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| Summary: | William Blake is a poet of both simple directness and of multilayered irony, the writer of pastoral ballads but also of obscure mythopoeia: ‘deep dissimulation is the only defence an honest man has left’, as Erin laments in his Jerusalem. That demanding poem, like most of Blake’s books, combines words and powerful visual designs. The books were laboriously produced by a London artisan who was largely neglected by his contemporaries. When he was noticed, it was often for his ‘madness’, since the poet and engraver made extreme and apparently sincere claims to be a prophet and visionary, the equal of Isaiah and Ezekiel. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frp053 |