Literary Lives

A Literary Life

By: J. Beer

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Hardcover | 7 October 2005 | Edition Number 1

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266 Pages

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Written by the distinguished scholar Professor John Beer, this new volume on Blake in Palgrave Macmillan's Literary Lives series follows the writer's life and combines biography and critical analysis. Covering Blake's early career, his major works (such as Songs of Innocence and of Experience) and his work as a visual artist, this new study will be a must for all Blake scholars and enthusiasts. Recent discoveries concerning Blake's forebears and their religion make this new study additionally timely.

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006

'Professor John Beer's new book combines illuminating and fresh discussions of Blake's life and work with astute commentary on the visual materials. Tracing Blake's religious background from early childhood onwards, Beer presents a clear and highly readable account of the spiritual richness and complexity of his mature poetry. We also learn a lot about the world of fellow-artists, patrons and publishers in which Blake moved, including surprising glimpses of the visionary poet's forthright business dealings. Towards the end of the book Beer musters a moving series of contemporaries' impressions of Blake, some of which will be new to readers.' - Professor Deirdre Coleman, University of Sydney, Australia

'A continual source of stimulus...Beer conveys readable information about Blake's life, retelling some famous and less well-known anecdotes with a quiet power...he carries his immense and up-to-date scholarship lightly.. a fine book.' - Times Literary Supplement

'...Beer shows himself to be among the most astute readers of Blake's poetry...Part of a biographer's task is to get the reader to know his or her subject as a person and not merely as a poet or an artist or an historical figure. This John Beer had done admirably.' - Morton D. Paley, The Wordsworth Circle

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Non-Fiction Biographies & True Stories Biographies Literary Biographies Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Poetry & Poets Language & Linguistics Reference, Dictionaries & Guides History General & World History Poetry

Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900 General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1500 to 1800

List of Figures	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Rescuing the Human Spirit	p. 1
Traces of Tradition?	p. 16
Through Satire to Innocence	p. 29
Love, Marriage and Sexual Lore	p. 41
Finding a Voice for Experience	p. 53
The Challenge of Energy	p. 69
Thinking Allegorically, Imaging Symbolically	p. 87
'Vala' and the Fate of Narrative Epic	p. 109
'A Slumber on the banks of the Ocean'	p. 122
Fragmentary Modes of Epic	p. 139
Years of Resentment, Hints of Paradox	p. 159
A Persisting Visionary	p. 177
Prophetic Afterlife	p. 206
Notes	p. 221
Select Bibliography	p. 235
Index	p. 237
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