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Despite the flow of books on William Blake, this first full-length life biography published in 1863 remains essential to those who would understand one of the greatest of Englishmen, for the author, Alexander Gilchrist, had one advantage which has been denied to his successors - he could still find people who had known Blake. These personal reminiscences give the book an actuality which few of the later ones have touched. The second and best edition...
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Yale University Press
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2015.
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"William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and society. He was a counterculture prophet whose art still challenges us to think afresh about almost every aspect of experience - social, political,...
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Stein and Day
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[1968]
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The close relationship between Pope's personal life, particularly his physical health and the long-lasting effects of an adolescent illness, and his writing career are traced meticulously. His literary associations are also carefully scrutinized and the influence of each on his various writings are explored in this study.
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