William Blake

Book Review: Seeing “Eternity’s Sunrise”—Understanding the Vision of William Blake

November 10, 2015
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In Eternity’s Sunrise, Leo Damrosch’s prose flows, filled with imaginative lucidity.

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Book Review: “The Poets’ Wives” — What Does it Mean to be Married to a Poet?

May 23, 2014
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Taken as a whole, “The Poets’ Wives” is a fascinating, brave novel whose love of poetry breathes through all three sections.

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Book Commentary: Two Cheers for British Poet, Book Artist, and Visionary William Blake

April 30, 2013
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Susanne M. Sklar’s study is the best exploration of William Blake’s miraculously bewildering masterpiece that I know of — thoughtful, scholarly, imaginative, and supremely sympathetic to the poet’s ornery complexity as well as his capacity to inspire wonder.

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Cultural Commentary — Northrop Frye at 100

July 14, 2012
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Northrop Frye, inspired by the poet William Blake, demands that the critic be a warrior in a “mental fight,” articulating the liberating value of literature as a source of imaginative energy that generates possibilities.

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