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William Blake

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

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

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: English poetry, Eternity's Sunrise, Leo Damrosch, Susanne Sklar, The Imaginative World of William Blake, William Blake, Yale-University-Press

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

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

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Catherine Blake, David Park, fiction, Irish, Nadezhda Mandelstam, The Poets’ Wives, William Blake

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

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.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Blake's Jerusalem as Visionary Theatre, Suzanne M. Sklar, William Blake

Cultural Commentary — Northrop Frye at 100

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.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: criticism, imagination, Northrop Frye, William Blake

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