This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers
students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of
William Blake (1757-1827). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus,
this authoritative edition enables students to explore Blake's
poetry, illuminated poetry, and prose alongside selections from his
letters, manuscripts, notebook, advertising pamphlets, marginalia,
and works he printed in conventional letterpress. The edition
arranges Blake's works in chronological order, according to the
date when they were first printed or, in the case of unpublished
works, the years in which they were composed. With the help of
editorial headnotes and annotations, this arrangement brings to the
foreground Blake's material and intellectual labours as a poet,
painter, prophet, and non-academic philosopher; the networks of
acquaintances, friends, patrons, and enemies who helped support or
provoke this work; and the tumultuous historical events he
responded to, which included the beginning of modern feminism, the
agricultural and industrial revolutions, the American and French
Revolutions, William Pitt's so-called 'Reign of Terror' in Britain,
an attempted revolution in Ireland (1798), a successful slave
rebellion in Haiti (1791-1804), and the French revolutionary and
Napoleonic wars. Some editions attempt to sanitize Blake, by hiding
from view the most startling elements of his thought; but in this
edition Blake's sexual, political, religious, and poetic heterodoxy
comes into full view. At the same time, this edition foregrounds
the dynamics of Blake's composite art, with equal weight given to
its verbal and visual dimensions; makes visible the chief lines of
force that structure his oeuvre; and highlights his developing
thought on sapphism, sodomy, the body, relations between the sexes,
the roots of violence, and the politics of imagination. This is a
Blake whose dialogue with his own time anticipates much later
developments, including modern depth psychologies; analyses of the
social and psychological dynamics of war and peace; interest in the
body, sexuality, and gender; and experiments in the relation
between actual and virtual realities-a Blake who is provocative,
unsettling, exhilarating, and somehow our contemporary. Explanatory
notes and commentary are included, to enhance the study,
understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the edition
includes an Introduction to the life and works of Blake, and a
Chronology.
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