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1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1: Spirit and Society: Blake's Early American Appeal -- 2: Prophets of Democracy: Blake and Whitman -- 3: Early Twentieth-Century America: New Versions of the Prophet -- 4: Ginsberg's Prophetic Guru -- 5: Blake, Duncan, and the Politics of Writing from Myth -- 6: 'Energy is Eternal Delight': Blake and Ecopoetic Action -- 7: 'Break on Through': Musical Openings of the Doors of Perception -- 8: The Poetics of Belief: Blake and Countercultural Theology -- 9: Romanticism after Auschwitz: Blake and Bellow -- 10: Continuing Visions -- America: A Prophecy |
| Summary |
Tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture and argues that Blake's poetry has been crucial to America's sense of itself as a mythic and prophetic nation and its struggle with the ironies of new world symbolism as a land of the free and a site of possibility and redemption |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Travel -- United States
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Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Influence
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Blake, William, 1757-1827 fast |
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Antislavery movements in literature.
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Politics in literature.
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American literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Travel
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Politics in literature
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Antislavery movements in literature
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American literature
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Literature
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America -- In literature
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United States
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America
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192542762 |
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0192542761 |
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9780191851261 |
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0191851264 |
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