Tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture and argues that Blake's poetry has been crucial to America's sense of itself as a mythic and prophetic nation and its struggle with the ironies of new world symbolism as a land of the free and a site of possibility and redemption.
Tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture and argues that Blake's poetry has been crucial to America's sense of itself as a mythic and prophetic nation and its struggle with the ironies of new world symbolism as a land of the free and a site of possibility and redemption.
Linda Freedman is a Lecturer in English and American literature at University College London. She is the author of Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and has published widely on nineteenth and twentieth century literature. Her work explores the relationship between literature, theology, and the visual arts; transatlantic connections; and the afterlife of Romanticism.
Inhaltsangabe
1: Spirit and Society: Blake's Early American Appeal 2: Blake and Whitman: Prophets of Democracy 3: Early Twentieth-Century America: New Versions of the Prophet 4: Ginsberg's Prophetic Guru 5: Blake, Duncan and the Politics of Writing from Myth 6: 'Energy is Eternal Delight': Blake and Ecopoetic Action 7: 'Break on Through': Musical Openings of the Doors of Perception 8: The Poetics of Belief: Blake and Countercultural Theology 9: Romanticism after Auschwitz: Blake and Bellow 10: Continuing Visions America: A Prophecy
1: Spirit and Society: Blake's Early American Appeal 2: Blake and Whitman: Prophets of Democracy 3: Early Twentieth-Century America: New Versions of the Prophet 4: Ginsberg's Prophetic Guru 5: Blake, Duncan and the Politics of Writing from Myth 6: 'Energy is Eternal Delight': Blake and Ecopoetic Action 7: 'Break on Through': Musical Openings of the Doors of Perception 8: The Poetics of Belief: Blake and Countercultural Theology 9: Romanticism after Auschwitz: Blake and Bellow 10: Continuing Visions America: A Prophecy
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