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Free Download Mei-Ying Sung, "William Blake and the Art of Engraving"
English | 2009 | pages: 231 | ISBN: 1851969586 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Sung closely examines William Blake’s extant engraved copper plates and arrives at a new interpretation of his working process. Sung suggests that Blake revised and corrected his work more than was previously thought. This belies the Romantic ideal that the acts of conception and execution are simultaneous in the creative process.

Free Download Karen Mulhallen, "Blake in Our Time: Essays in Honour of G.E. Bentley, Jr."
English | ISBN: 1442641517 | 2010 | 296 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Blake in Our Time explores the work of British poet and artist William Blake in the context of the material culture of his era. In the 1960s, University of Toronto scholar G.E. Bentley, Jr almost singlehandedly shifted the focus of Blake criticism from formalism and symbolism to the materiality that contextualizes Blake’s work.

Free Download Lorraine Clark, "Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Spectre of Dialectic"
English | 2009 | pages: 251 | ISBN: 0521395097 | PDF | 6,6 mb
This study traces affinities between the late prophetic poems of William Blake and the work of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. Both feature concepts (the Spectre fought by Blake’s poet-prophet Los, and Kierkegaard’s idea of "dread") embodying a spirit of philosophical negation, skepticism, and dialectic which the writers sought to resist. Lorraine Clark uses Kierkegaard’s philosophy to illuminate Blake’s prophecies, showing that both offer the basis for a profound critique of romanticism, while themselves partaking of some of the ideals and tensions central to our understanding of the romantic movement.

Free Download John Kenneth Muir, "A History and Critical Analysis of Blake’s 7, the 1978-1981 British Television Space Adventure Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0786426608 | 2006 | 223 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Blake’s 7, Terry Nation’s science fiction tale of cosmic freedom fighters, became a hit series in Great Britain when it premiered in 1978. Eight years later, the show quickly became a cult program in America. A dramatization of futuristic outlaw heroes who defend the innocent from both alien and human conquering forces, the series might better be said to be equal parts Robin Hood and The Magnificent Seven. The series defied traditional genre elements of science fiction television, and developed the concept of the continual "story arc" years before such shows as Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine.

Free Download Sheila Spector, "The Evolution of Blake’s Myth "
English | ISBN: 1032236159 | 2021 | 392 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Interpreting Blake has always proved challenging. Hermeneutics, as the on-going negotiation between the horizon of expectations and a given text, hinges on the preconceptions that structure thought. The structure, in turn, is derived from myth, a cultural narrative predicated on a particular set of foundational principles, and organized in terms of the resulting symbolic form. The primary impediment to interpreting Blake has been the failure to recognize that he and much of his audience have thought in terms of two radically different myths.

Free Download Authorship, Ethics, and the Reader: Blake, Dickens, Joyce By Dominic Rainsford
1997 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0333669711 | PDF | 16 MB
Dominic Rainsford examines ways in which literary texts may seem to comment on their authors’ ethical status. Its argument develops through readings of Blake, Dickens, and Joyce, three authors who find especially vivid ways of casting doubt on their own moral authority, at the same time as they expose wider social ills. The book combines its interest in ethics with post-structuralist scepticism, and thus develops a type of radical humanism with applications far beyond the three authors immediately discussed.

Free Download William Blake and the Visionary Law: Prophecy, Legislation and Constitution
by Matthew Mauger
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031377222 | 239 Pages | True PDF | 7 MB

Free Download Nicholas Meihuizen, "Romantic Daemons in the Poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats: Beyond the Human"
English | ISBN: 152757752X | 2024 | 467 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book offers detailed readings of relevant works by Blake, Shelley and Keats, to bring together what is loosely termed as Hermetic tradition, British Romantic poetry and responses to the present crises regarding our life on the planet, including those linked to the notion of posthumanism. This conjunction of forces, so to speak, points beyond the boundaries erected by general sociological complacency and the acceptance of humankind as the centre of existence on Earth, to affirm the value of the non-human world and the possibilities inherent in an awareness of its subtler manifestations. Although the idea of spiritual agency might stretch the bounds of credulity, for centuries the inspired imagination has been considered daemonic; that is, it brings to artists and poets (and certain scientists, indeed) a sense of heightened consciousness, seemingly from beyond the self. Whatever causality may be at play here, it is clear that instances of an exalted outlook on life exist in abundance in the poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats. The present book explores them and their implications.

Free Download Nicholas Meihuizen, "Romantic Daemons in the Poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats: Beyond the Human"
English | ISBN: 152757752X | 2024 | 467 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book offers detailed readings of relevant works by Blake, Shelley and Keats, to bring together what is loosely termed as Hermetic tradition, British Romantic poetry and responses to the present crises regarding our life on the planet, including those linked to the notion of posthumanism. This conjunction of forces, so to speak, points beyond the boundaries erected by general sociological complacency and the acceptance of humankind as the centre of existence on Earth, to affirm the value of the non-human world and the possibilities inherent in an awareness of its subtler manifestations. Although the idea of spiritual agency might stretch the bounds of credulity, for centuries the inspired imagination has been considered daemonic; that is, it brings to artists and poets (and certain scientists, indeed) a sense of heightened consciousness, seemingly from beyond the self. Whatever causality may be at play here, it is clear that instances of an exalted outlook on life exist in abundance in the poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats. The present book explores them and their implications.

Free Download James Rovira, "Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 "
English | ISBN: 1498553834 | 2018 | 198 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 1285 KB
Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on what it has become in the present. This anthology allows Byron and Wollstonecraft to speak back to contemporary theories of Romanticism through Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. Relying on Löwy and Sayre’s Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity, it explores how hostility, loss, and longing for unity are particularly appropriate terms for classic rock as well as the origins of these emotions. In essays ranging from Bob Dylan to Blackberry Smoke, this work examines how rock and roll expands, interprets, restates, interrogates, and conflicts with literary Romanticism, all the while understanding that as a term "rock and roll" in reference to popular music from the late 1940s through the early 2000s is every bit as contradictory and difficult to define as the word Romanticism itself.