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Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and Blanchot's writings in the twentieth. Taking 'night' as the breakdown of rational progr...

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Main Author: Tambling, Jeremy (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
British literature.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Poetry.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and Blanchot's writings in the twentieth. Taking 'night' as the breakdown of rational progressive thought and of thought based on concepts of identity, the book reads the lyric poetry, some Prophetic works, including a chapter on The Four Zoas , the illustrations to Young, and Dante, and look's at Blake's writing of madness.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 202 pages)
ISBN:9780230505612
DOI:10.1057/9780230505612