Blake: Prophet Against Empire
LC Class | PR4148.P6 E7 1991 | |
Blake: Prophet Against Empire: A Poet's Interpretation of the History of His Own Times is a 1954 biography by David V. Erdman whose subject is the life and work of English poet and painter William Blake.[1]
Reception
Critic
Gordon riots, the French Revolution, the policies of the Pitt government and the famine in England. Erdman states that Blake was far from being an abstract or vague poet, but was a concrete one, whose social environment helped shape both his most famous and obscure works.[2]
Jacob Bronowski stated that: "Blake: Prophet Against Empire is the most important book that has been written about Blake... it expounded the view of Blake as a poet of social vision and human protest."
See also
- Harold Bloom
- Fearful Symmetry
References
- ISBN 0-486-26719-9
- ^ ISBN 0-8020-3919-7Page 237
External links
- David V. Erdman, Blake: Prophet Against Empire: A Poet's Interpretation of the History of His Own Times, (1954), Limited view book on Google Books