Blake''s Night Thoughts

Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and Blanchot's writings in the twentieth. Taking 'night' as the breakdown of rational progressive thought and of thought based on concepts of identity, the book reads the lyric poetry, some Prophetic works, including a chapter on The Four Zoas , the illustrations to Young, and Dante, and look's at Blake's writing of madness.

List of contents

Preface Introduction: 'The Sun is Gone Down' 'In the Silent of the Night' Young, and 'Weary Night' Night Dreams: The Four Zoas 'I see London, Blind...' 'Forests of the Night': Blake and Madness Dante's 'Deep and Woody Way' Notes Index

About the author

JEREMY TAMBLING is Professor of Comparative Literature in the University of Hong Kong, and author of several studies in nineteenth century literature and modernism, and on critical theory. He has also published substantially on Dante, and his publications include Allegory and the Work of Melancholy in the Late Medieval and Shakespeare (2004).

Summary

Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and Blanchot's writings in the twentieth. Taking 'night' as the breakdown of rational progressive thought and of thought based on concepts of identity, the book reads the lyric poetry, some Prophetic works, including a chapter on The Four Zoas , the illustrations to Young, and Dante, and look's at Blake's writing of madness.

Product details

• Authors: J Tambling, J. Tambling, Professor Jeremy Tambling
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349521661
• ISBN: 978-1-349-52166-1
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; B, Poetry, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, lyric;poet;poetry;William Blake