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Erdman covers the major events such as the American Revolution, the 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]
Erdman was a prolific scholar producing over sixty articles in professional journals. Additionally, Erdman wrote or edited the following monographs: [1] As author. Blake: Prophet against Empire, Princeton University Press, 1954, 3rd edition, 1977. The Poems of William Blake, edited by W. H. Stevenson, Longman (Harlow, England), 1971.
The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake, ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1965/1982/1988 (see also at the Blake archive) Erdman, Errors in the 1973 edition of The Notebook . . . , Blake Newsletter, ix, 1975, pp. 39, 40
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 January 2025. English poet and artist (1757–1827) For other people named William Blake, see William Blake (disambiguation). William Blake Portrait by Thomas Phillips (1807) Born (1757-11-28) 28 November 1757 Soho, London, England Died 12 August 1827 (1827-08-12) (aged 69) Charing Cross, London ...
Most scholars however support Keynes, and All Religions are One precedes There is No Natural Religion in almost all modern anthologies of Blake's work; for example, Alicia Ostriker's William Blake: The Complete Poems (1977), David V. Erdman's 2nd edition of The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake (1982), Morris Eaves', Robert N. Essick's ...
The William Blake Archive is a digital humanities project started in 1994, a first version of the website was launched in 1996. [1] The project is sponsored by the Library of Congress and supported by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Rochester . [ 2 ]
Robinson wrote an essay about Blake's works in 1810 and described Europe and America as "mysterious and incomprehensible rhapsody". [26] Blake's fame grew in 1816 with an entry in A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland, which included Europe among the works of "an eccentric but very ingenious artist". [27]
The prophetic books of the 18th-century English poet and artist William Blake are a series of lengthy, interrelated poetic works drawing upon Blake's own personal mythology. They have been described by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye as forming "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". [ 1 ]