William Blake: A Critical Essay
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In the pantheon of Romantic visionaries, William Blake stands apart — poet, painter, and prophet — and it took a poet of equal audacity to render his genius comprehensible to the Victorian world. Algernon Charles Swinburne's William Blake: A Critical Essay, first published in 1868, remains one of the most penetrating and passionate assessments of Blake's art and verse ever committed to the page, chronicling the full arc of Blake's prophetic imagination with an intensity that mirrors its subject. Swinburne argues with conviction that Blake was not the eccentric mystic his contemporaries dismissed, but a supreme artist whose symbolic systems and lyrical power demanded serious intellectual engagement, tracing the intricate mythologies of the Prophetic Books alongside the crystalline beauty of the Songs of Innocence and Experience. This University of Nebraska Press Bison Book edition, edited and introduced by Hugh J. Luke, restores Swinburne's landmark text to a new generation of readers, situating it within the broader history of Blake scholarship and Victorian literary criticism. Swinburne's own prose style — ornate, rhapsodic, and fiercely erudite — mirrors the visionary intensity of his subject, making the critical act itself a form of literary art. As much a testament to Swinburne's own Romantic sensibilities as it is an illumination of Blake's genius, this volume raises a question that lingers long after the final page: where does the critic end and the devotee begin?
Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
Format: Paperback
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the pantheon of Romantic visionaries, William Blake stands apart — poet, painter, and prophet — and it took a poet of equal audacity to render his genius comprehensible to the Victorian world. Algernon Charles Swinburne's William Blake: A Critical Essay, first published in 1868, remains one of the most penetrating and passionate assessments of Blake's art and verse ever committed to the page, chronicling the full arc of Blake's prophetic imagination with an intensity that mirrors its subject. Swinburne argues with conviction that Blake was not the eccentric mystic his contemporaries dismissed, but a supreme artist whose symbolic systems and lyrical power demanded serious intellectual engagement, tracing the intricate mythologies of the Prophetic Books alongside the crystalline beauty of the Songs of Innocence and Experience. This University of Nebraska Press Bison Book edition, edited and introduced by Hugh J. Luke, restores Swinburne's landmark text to a new generation of readers, situating it within the broader history of Blake scholarship and Victorian literary criticism. Swinburne's own prose style — ornate, rhapsodic, and fiercely erudite — mirrors the visionary intensity of his subject, making the critical act itself a form of literary art. As much a testament to Swinburne's own Romantic sensibilities as it is an illumination of Blake's genius, this volume raises a question that lingers long after the final page: where does the critic end and the devotee begin?