1st Edition

Reading Blake's Songs

By Zachary Leader Copyright 1981
302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

First appearing in 1981, this book was the first full-length study of the Songs of Innocence and Experience to be published in almost fifteen years. The book provides detailed readings of each poem and its accompanying design, to redirect attention to the nature and achievement of the book as a whole, to Songs as a single, carefully unified work of verbal and visual art. Particularly close... Read more

Acknowledgements;  Key to References;  Introduction;  A Note on Copies  1. Children’s Books, Education, and Vision  2. The Designs  3. Entering Innocence  4. Innocence in Maturity  5. Entering Experience  6. False Innocence  7. The Bard Redeemed;  Notes;  Index

Biography

Zachary Leader