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William Blake and the visionary poetry of the law.
No full textPhDThis dissertation examines the meaning of law in Blake's work. I argue that Blake's poetry
intersects with contemporaneous challenges to the traditional model of the ancient constitution,
a debate which I present as a conflict between custom and code. Blake's support for the French
Revolution's overthrow of the customary systems of the ancien regime is countered by his
nervousness about the rights-based discourse advanced by leading radical intellectuals such as
Thomas Paine, a belief that the new systems which they proposed merely re-stated those which
they sought to replace within an even narrower compass.
Law is also a contested ground within radical political discourse of this period; although the
dominant proposals advocated the enshrinement of fundamental rights and the codification of
law, there was also a tendency towards a more enthusiastic radicalism These millenarian
groups, emerging from antinomian heresy, rejected the notion of life being framed within a set
of moral laws. I argue that Blake cannot easily be placed in either group; his work exhibits a
fidelity to the redemptive potential of law, coupled with a real concern that to define freedoms
in legal terms serves to limit rather than to liberate.
Blake's work thus engages with a problem of the period: how to understand the new
discourses of law. The customary account of the ancient English conunon law is predicated on
the idea that it is codified, yet not written down; secular, though grounded in divine principle.
These ambivalences are exploited by Blake in his poetic exploration of the law in the 1790s. In
his nineteenth-century epics, Blake finds increasing help in dissenting religion's reconstruction
of a radicalized Jesus. Through this radical prophetic voice, Blake is able to construct a
redemptive legality founded on a deinstitutio-nalized Christianity, a constitutionalism that is
also recovered from the conventional customary account
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The twelve large colour prints of William Blake: a study on techniques, materials and context
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to study in entirety the group of large colour prints which William Blake made between 1795 and 1805. The series of prints represents the single most important and complete development of Blake’s skill as an innovative printmaker. Although they include some of Blake’s best-known images, they have not been studied before in their entirety or from the point of view of analysing the techniques and methods Blake had used. My study will show how Blake executed these truly impressive prints in terms of materials, method and motives. The first half of the thesis deals with the materialistic aspects of Blake’s colour printing. In chapter one tracing the controversial two-pull discussion to the root, I will make clear the focus points as well as revealing the early tradition of experimental criticism on Blake’s colour printing method. Focusing on two important critics, W. Graham Robertson and Ruthven Todd, and the periods they lived, I attempt to reveal the role they played in a wider context. Also I show how the tradition of Blake’s art was inherited directly through the Ancients to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which leads to Robertson and Todd. In the second chapter I deal with the development of Blake’s colour printing experiments. It is obvious that the Twelve Large Colour Prints were produced as a result of Blake’s series of colour printing experiments, starting with monocolour simple prints, going through the illuminated books progressing with more colours and higher skills
Tradução comentada de Milton de William Blake
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da TraduçãoPartindo de uma análise do percurso da tradução das obras de William Blake no sistema literário brasileiro, esse trabalho discute uma proposta de tradução de Milton, uma das três maiores profecias do autor, como uma possibilidade de reescrita complementar às reescritas existentes do poeta inglês no Brasil. Fornecem dados para essa discussão a própria tradução de Milton e seu confronto com a tradução do mesmo livro realizada por Manuel Portela (Blake, 2009b). Na proposta de tradução apresentada neste trabalho, o ritmo, a pontuação, o uso de adjetivos, as repetições, as aliterações e consonâncias e os nomes próprios são identificados como algumas das características relevantes na totalidade do texto de Milton, e o estudo crítico sobre a obra e seu autor é considerado fundamental para determinar tanto as escolhas de tradução em nível textual como o perfil geral da reescrit
Letter, T. C. Blake to Anna (Annie) McKee Boyd Green, August 26, 1871
No full textIn this handwritten letter, dated August 26, 1871, T. C. Blake writes to Anna (Annie) McKee Boyd Green acknowledging the receipt of some money and soliciting her to send him a club.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-webb-collection/1544/thumbnail.jp
Blake and Kierkegaard Creation and Anxiety
No full textThis study applies Kierkegaardian anxiety to Blake's creation myths to explain how Romantic era creation narratives are a reaction to Enlightenment models of personality.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Blake and Kierkegaard: Shared Contexts -- The Sources of Kierkegaardian Anxiety and Creation Anxiety -- Denmark's and England's Shared Histories -- Denmark's and England's Cultural Anxieties -- Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Cultural Tensions -- 2 Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Socratic Tradition -- Human Personality and the Socratic Tradition -- Kierkegaard and the Socratic Tradition -- Blake and the Socratic Tradition -- 3 Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Classical Model of Personality -- Kierkegaard's Aesthetic Stage and Blake's Innocence -- Kierkegaard's Ethical Stage and Blake's Experience -- Kierkegaard's Religiousness A and B and Blake's Visionary Personality -- 4 Innocence, Generation, and the Fall in Blake and Kierkegaard -- Kierkegaard and the Problem of Generation -- Generation in Blake -- Urizen the Reflective-Aesthetic King -- Reason and Imagination in Blake and Kierkegaard -- 5 Creation Anxiety and The [First] Book of Urizen -- Urizen the Creator-Monarch -- Science and Religion in the Urizen Books -- Haufniensis, the Demonic, and Spiritlessness -- Conclusion: Nature, Artifice, and Creation Anxiety in William Blake -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- YThis study applies Kierkegaardian anxiety to Blake's creation myths to explain how Romantic era creation narratives are a reaction to Enlightenment models of personality.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Letter, T. C. Blake to Anna (Annie) McKee Boyd Green, February 18, 1870
No full textIn this handwritten letter, dated February 18, 1870, T. C. Blake writes to Anna (Annie) McKee Boyd Green to let her know he is sending money and where/how he is sending it. Th letter Is written on Office of the Banner of Peace, Theological Medium and Sabbath School Gem. stationary.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-webb-collection/1543/thumbnail.jp
Job’s Gethsemane: tradition and imagination in William Blake’s illustrations for the book of job
No full textBlake created two versions of his Illustrations of the Book of Job, and it is now agreed that about twenty years separates his first watercolour series and the final engraved set of plates. The first chapter is biographical and technical: it establishes that the Butts series of water-colours was the product of the tumultuous and creative years 1805-10, following a time wh6n Blake experienced a strong sense of vision and Christian regeneration; whereas the engraved set was produced 1821-1826, at the end of his life. It also reviews all Blake's treatments of the Job theme. The friends-turned-accusers seem to have been a central pre-occupation. Blake's illustrations contain important elements which are not found in the Old Testament text. I have followed Bo Lindberg's principle that explanation should be sought in the artistic tradition, and in the work itself The second chapter concentrates on the tradition available to Blake, following and supplementing Lindberg's examination of the influence of the apocryphal Testament of Job, and of the artistic tradition of seeing Job as alter Christus and as Christian. Chapters three to five, interpreting Blake's imaginative use of this material, are new both in focussing on the Butts set, and in exploring the importance to Blake of St.Teresa, Fenelon, Mme. Guyon, Hervey and other people of prayer. Also discussed are Joseph Hallett's radical biblical commentary, of which Blake owned a copy, variant proofs discovered by Robert Essick of the first and last engraved plates, and the thirteenth century Job wall- paintings discovered in 1800 in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster. Blake's Job was unique in the corpus of his work. Previous studies have followed Wicksteed in concentrating on the engraved set, and no one has explored the implications of the earlier dating now agreed for the watercolour series. The thesis is essentially concerned with Blake's Christocentric theme, and Job's inner journey of prayer, in these illustrations. Conclusions drawn differ substantially from Wicksteed's
Letter, T. C. Blake to Anna (Annie) McKee Boyd Green, December 22, 1884
No full textIn this handwritten letter, dated December 22, 1884, T. C. Blake writes to Anna (Annie) McKee Boyd Green to thank her for the money she sent for an issue of The Youth\u27s Treasury and encourages her to share it and help grow their circulation. He explains the church\u27s belief of it\u27s importance. The letter is written on Office of the Youths\u27 Treasury letterhead stationary.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-webb-collection/1559/thumbnail.jp
William Blake The Critical Heritage
No full textThe Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.Cover -- WILLIAM BLAKE: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Preface -- Introduction: BLAKE'S CRITICAL REPUTATION 1780-1863 -- PART I BLAKE'S LIFE -- 1. General comments: 1826, 1827, 1855 -- (a) Crabb Robinson, 1826 -- (b) John Linnell, 1827 -- (c) Samuel Palmer, 1855 -- 2. External events: 1757-1812 -- 3. Politics: 1804, 1805 -- (a) Samuel Greatheed, 1804 -- (b) William Hayley, 1805 -- 4. Visions: 1761-1825 -- (a) Blake, 1761-1800 -- (b) Thomas Phillips, 1807 -- (c) Blake, 1819-25 -- 5. Madness: 1841, 1805, 1830 -- (a) W.C.Dendy, 1841 -- (b) Lady Hesketh, 1805 -- (c) Caroline Bowles, 1830 -- (d) Robert Southey, 1830 -- (e) James Ward, Edward Calvert, F.O.Finch, Cornelius Varley -- (f) Seymour KirKup -- 6. 'He is always in Paradise': 1825-60 -- (a) Crabb Robinson, 1825 -- (b) Samuel Palmer -- (c) Thomas Woolner, 1860 -- (d) Seymour Kirkup -- (e) Crabb Robinson, 1826 -- (f) Frederick Tatham, 1832 -- PART II WRITINGS -- 7. Reviews of Malkin's account of Blake (1806): 1806, 1807 -- (a) Literary Journal, 1806 -- (b) British Critic, 1806 -- (c) Monthly Review, 1806 -- (d) Monthly Magazine, 1807 -- (e) Annual Review, 1807 -- 8. General comments: 1807-38 -- (a) George Cumberland, 1808 -- (b) Blake, 1808 -- (c) Wordsworth, 1807 -- (d) Crabb Robinson, 1812, 1813, 1838 -- (e) W.S.Landor -- 9. Poetical Sketches (1783): 1828, 1784 -- (a) J.T.Smith, 1828 -- (b) John Flaxman, 1784 -- 10. The Book of Thel (1789): 1839 -- J.J.G.Willinson's, 1839 -- 11. The French Revolution (1791) -- Samuel Palmer, 1827 -- 12. Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789, 1794): 1811-63 -- (a) J.T.Smith, 1828 -- (b) Crabb Robinson, 1811 -- (c) William Hazlitt, 1826 -- (d) Coleridge, 1818 -- (e) Gilchrist, 1863 -- (f) Blake, 1827 -- (g) Edward FitzGerald, 1833 -- (h) J.J.G.Wilkinson, 1839(i) Edward Quillinan, 1848 -- (j) John Ruskin -- 13. America (1793) and Europe (1794): 1828 -- Richard Thomson, 1828 -- 14. Descriptive Catalogue (1809): 1809-47 -- (a) Blake, 1809 -- (b) Crabb Robinson, 1810 -- (c) Robert Southey, 1847 -- (d) George Cumberland, Jr, 1809 -- (e) George Cumberland, 1809 -- (f) Robert Hunt in the Examiner, 1809 -- (g) Blake -- 15. Jerusalem (1804-?20): 1811-28 -- (a) Crabb Robinson, 1811 -- (b) T.G.Wainewright, 1820 -- (c) J.T.Smith, 1828 -- PART III DRAWINGS -- 16. General comments: 1780-1865 -- (a) Crabb Robinson, 1825 -- (b) Blake, ?1820 -- (c) Gilchrist, 1863 -- (d) J.T.Smith, 1828 -- (e) Blake -- (f) Fuseli -- (g) George Richmond -- (h) Allan Cunningham, 1830 -- (i) Isaac D'Israeli, 1836 -- (j) William Hayley, 1803 -- (k) Gilchrist, 1863 -- (l) J.T.Smith, 1828 -- (m) Frederick Tatham, ?1832 -- (n) John Linnell, 1863 -- (o) Blake -- (p) George Cumberland, 1780 -- (q) John Flaxman, 1783 -- (r) Dr Trusler, 1799 -- (s) John Flaxman, 1800 -- (t) Blake, 1802 -- (u) T.F.Dibdin, 1836 -- (v) William Hayley, 1801 -- (w) Blake, 1801 -- (x) Nancy Flaxman, 1805 -- (y) Blake, 1808 -- (z) Ozias Humphry, 1808 -- (aa) George Cumberland, Jr, 1815 -- (bb) J.T.Smith, 1828 -- (cc) C.H.B.Ker, 1810 -- (dd) Seymour KirKup, 1865 -- (ee) George Cumberland, 1808 -- (ff) J.J.G.Wilkinson, 1838 -- (gg) John Ruskin, 1849 -- PART IV ENGRAVED DESIGNS -- 17. General comments -- (a) Blake, 1804 -- (b) Gilchrist, 1863 -- (c) John Flaxman, 1805 -- (d) Joseph Johnson, 1791 -- (e) John Flaxman, 1804, 1808, 1814 -- 18. Salzmann, Elements of Morality (1791): 1791 -- Analytical Review, 1791 -- 19. Burger, Leonora (1796): 1796 -- (a) British Critic, 1796 -- (b) Analytical Review, 1796 87 -- 20. Cumberland, Thoughts on Outline (1796): 1796 -- Reference to Blake in the text, 1796 -- 21. Stuart and Revett, Antiquities of Athens, 1794: 1803John Flaxman, 1803 -- 22. Young, Night Thoughts (1797): 1796-1830 -- (a) J.T.Smith, 1828 -- (b) Joseph Farington 1796-7 -- (c) Advertising flyer, 1797 -- (d) Advertisement in Night Thoughts, 1797 -- (e) T.F.Dibdin, 1824 -- (f) Bulwer Lytton, 1830 -- (g) Auction catalogue, 1821 -- (h) Auction catalogue, 1826 -- (i) Auction catalogue, 1828 -- 23. Hayley, Essay on Sculpture (1800): 1800 -- (a) William Hayley"s, 1800 -- (b) Blake, 1800 -- (c) William Hayley, 1800 -- 24. Hayley, Designs to a Series of Ballads (1802): 1802 -- (a) William Hayley, 1802 -- (b) Lady Hesketh, 1802 -- (c) John Flaxman, 1802 -- (d) Charlotte Collins, 1802 -- (e) Lady Hesketh, 1802 -- (f) Blake -- (g) John Johnson, 1802 -- (h) Lady Hesketh, 1802 -- (i) William Hayley, 1802 -- (j) Lady Hesketh, 1802 -- 25. Hayley, Life…of William Cowper (1803): 1801-4 -- (a) William Hayley, 1801 -- (b) Lady Hesketh, 1801 -- (c) William Hayley, 1801-2 -- (d) John Flaxman, 1802 -- (e) William Hayley, 1802 -- (f) Lady Hesketh, 1802-3 -- (g) Blake, 1803 -- (h) Lady Hesketh, 1803 -- (i) Samuel Greatheed, 1804 -- 26. Hayley, Triumphs of Temper (1803): 1803 -- John Flaxman, 1803 -- 27. Hoare, Academic Correspondence, 1803 (1804): 1804 -- Literary Journal, 1804 -- 28. Hayley, Ballads (1805): 1805, 1806 -- (a) William Hayley, 1805 -- (b) Lady Hesketh, 1805 -- (c) Samuel Greatheed, 1805 -- (d) Samuel Greatheed review, 1805 -- (e) Robert Southey review, 1806 -- 29. Blair, The Grave (1808): 1805-63 -- General comments, 1805-63 -- (a) John Flaxman, 1805 -- (b) Blake, 1805 -- (c) Prospectus, 1805 -- (d) R.T.Stothard, 1863 -- (e) John Flaxman, 1805 -- (f) R.H.Cromek, 1807 -- (g) Louis Schiavonetti, 1807 -- (h) John Hoppner, 1808 -- (i) Advertisement, 1808 -- (j) W.Walker, 1808 -- (k) William Bell Scott -- (l) David Scott, 1844 -- (m) James Montgomery -- Reviews -- (n) Review by Robert Hunt in the Examiner, 1808(o) Blake's reply in his Descriptive Catalogue, 1809 -- (p) Antijacobin Review, 1808 -- (q) Monthly Magazine, 1808 -- General comments, 1810-26 -- (r) W.P.Carey, 1817 -- (s) Repository of Arts, 1810 -- (t) C.H.B.Ker, 1810 -- (u) Quarterly Review, 1826 -- (v) J.J.de Mora, 1826 -- (w) Sir Edward Denny, 1826 -- 30. The Prologue and Characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims (1812): 1812 -- (a) Introduction -- (b) Gentleman's Magazine, 1812 -- 31. Virgil, Pastorals (1821): 1821-63 -- (a) Henry Cole, 1843 -- (b) Gilchrist, 1863 -- (c) Virgil, Pastorals, 1821 -- (d) Edward Calvert -- (e) Samuel Palmer -- 32. Remember Me! (1825, 1826): 1825 -- Introduction -- 33. Illustrations of The Book of Job (1826): 1826-45 -- (a) J.T.Smith, 1828 -- (b) E.T.Daniell, 1826 -- (c) Robert Balmanno, 1826 -- (d) Sir Edward Denny, 1826 -- (e) H.S.C.Shorts, 1827 -- (f) George Cumberland, 1827 -- (g) H.Dumaresq, 1828 -- (h) Bernard Barton, 1830, 1838 -- (i) F.T.Palgrave, 1845 -- 34. Blake's Illustrations of Dante (?1838): 1824-?32 -- (a) Samuel Palmer, 1824 -- (b) T.G.Wainewright, 1827 -- (c) Crabb Robinson, 1827 -- (d) Bernard Barton, 1830 -- (e) Frederick Tatham's, ?1832 -- PART V GENERAL ESSAYS ON BLAKE -- 35. B.H.Malkin, A Father's Memoirs of his Child: 1806 -- 36. H.C.Robinson, 'William Blake, artist, poet and religious mystic': 1811 -- 37. Obituary in Literary Gazette: 1827 -- 38. Obituary in Literary Chronicle: 1827 -- 39. Allan Cunningham Lives of. British Painters: 1830 -- 40. Anon., 'The inventions of William Blake, painter and poet': 1830 -- 41. Anon., 'The last of the supernaturalists': 1830 -- 42. Frederick Tatham, 'Life of Blake': ?1832 -- PART VI FORGOTTEN YEARS REFERENCES TO WILLIAM BLAKE: 1831-62 -- Bibliography -- Annotated index of namesThe Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Blake, H T, VX15836
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/372157Surname: BLAKE
Given Name(s) or Initials: H T
Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX15836
Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 6674183077
Item: [2016.0049.04484] "Blake, H T, VX15836
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