Blake's Margins: An Interpretive Study of the Annotations

by Hazard Adams

Overview

Known for his prophetic and imaginative works of poetry, painting, and printmaking, William Blake was also a prolific reader and annotator of other writers' works. This is the first work of criticism to consider Blake's annotations in their entirety, and it covers such topics as art, poetry, theology, madness and philosophy, as well as the authors Lavater, Swedenborg, Bacon, Spurzheim, Berkeley, and Wordsworth, among others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786445363
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	11/03/2009
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

The late Hazard Adams was professor emeritus at the University of Washington’s department of comparative literature. He was known internationally as a scholar of William Blake, W.B. Yeats, Joyce Cary, and the history of criticism. He lived in Shelton, Washington.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface     
Introduction     

1. Annotations to Johann Caspar Lavater’s Aphorisms on Man     
2. Annotations to Emanuel Swedenborg’s Heaven and Hell, Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, and Divine Providence     
3. Annotations to Bishop Richard Watson’s An Apology for the Bible     
4. Annotations to Sir Francis Bacon’s Essays Moral, Economical, and Political     
5. Annotations to Henry Boyd’s A Translation of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri     
6. Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses on Art     
7. Annotations to J. C. Spurzheim’s Observations on the Deranged Manifestations of the Mind, or Insanity     
8. Annotations to Bishop George Berkeley’s Siris     
9. Annotations to William Wordsworth’s Poems and Preface to The Excursion     
10. Annotations to Robert John Thornton’s The Lord’s Prayer, Newly Translated     
11. Addendum     
12. A Note on Blake’s Reading     

Index     

Editorial Reviews

with the increasing appreciation of the nature of marginalia as a genre, Hazard Adams’s study of Blake’s is a timely one. Adams has the fine talents of discussing difficult passages lucidly without simplifying their meanings... all readers...will come away from it with a richer understanding of his thought”—Nbol.com; “an important and interesting work...this is the first critical work to consider William Blake’s annotations in their entirety”—Oxford Journal.

From the Publisher

"an important and interesting work...this is the first critical work to consider William Blake's annotations in their entirety"

Oxford Journal

with the increasing appreciation of the nature of marginalia as a genre, Hazard Adams's study of Blake's is a timely one. Adams has the fine talents of discussing difficult passages lucidly without simplifying their meanings... all readers...will come away from it with a richer understanding of his thought

Nbol.com