Twentieth century interpretations of Songs of innocence and of experience;: A collection of critical essays

Paley, Morton D.

PRENTICE/HALL

Energy and the imagination: A study of the development of Blake's thought,

Literature & Fiction

Clarendon P.

The Continuing City: William Blake's Jerusalem

Clarendon Pr

The poems that Coleridge wrote after his "golden" period are seldom studied or anthologized. Yet many of these later poems are of quality and interest, addressing such universal themes as the nature of self and the experience of unrequited love. Paley examines the later verse in the context of Coleridge's oeuvre. He discusses its distinguishing characteristics, and looks at why the poet felt he had to develop distinctively different modes of writing for these works.

Coleridge's Later Poetry

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

The interrelationship of apocalypse and millennium is a dominant concern in British Romanticism. The Book of Revelation provides a model of history in which apocalypse is followed by millennium, but the major Romantic poets question the possibility of a successful secularization of this model. Is history developing towards end time and millennium, or is it cyclical and purposeless?

Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry

Clarendon Press

Although Coleridge's thinking and writing about the fine arts was both considerable and interesting, this has not been the subject of a book before. Coleridge owed his initiation into art to Sir George Beaumont. In 1803-4 he had frequent opportunities to learn from Beaumont, to study Beaumont's small but elegant collection and to visit private collections. Before leaving for Malta in April 1804, Coleridge wrote "I have learnt as much fr[om] Sir George Beaumont respecting Pictures &amp; Painting and Paint[ers as] I ever learnt on any subject from any man in the same Space of Time." In Italy in 1806, Coleridge's experience of art deepened, thanks to the American artist Washington Allston, who taught him to see the artistic sights of Rome with a painter's eye. Coleridge also visited Florence and Pisa, and later said of the frescoes in Pisa's Camp Santo: "The impression was greater, I may say, than that any poem ever made upon me." Back in England, Coleridge visited London exhibitions, country house collections, and even artists' studios. In 1814, both Coleridge and Allston were in Bristol--Coleridge lecturing, Allston exhibiting. Coleridge's "On the Principles of Genial Criticism" began as a defense of Allston's paintings but became a statement about all the arts. This book, an important contribution to Coleridge's intellectual biography, will make readers aware of a dimension of his thinking that has been largely ignored until now.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Fine Arts

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

This is a study of Blake's poetry, art, and thought during the last years of his life, from 1818 to 1827. Morton Paley considers some of Blake's major accomplishments, including Blake's wood engravings for Thornton's Virgil, the separate plate known as The Laocoon, 101 illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy, and the great series of Illustrations to the Book of Job. Paley shows us a Blake who has flowered during his late years; a Blake who is free of any "systems," including his own.

The Traveller in the Evening: The Last Works of William Blake

The interrelationship of apocalypse and millennium is a dominant concern in British Romanticism. The Book of Revelation provides a model of history in which apocalypse is followed by millennium, but the major Romantic poets question the possibility of a successful secularization of this model. Is history developing towards end time and millennium, or is it cyclical and purposeless?

1986, hardcover edition, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 196 pages.  Full-color / b&w plates throughout.

The Apocalyptic Sublime

Yale University Press

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Twentieth century interpretations of Songs of innocence and of experience;: A collection of critical essays

Energy and the imagination: A study of the development of Blake's thought,

The Continuing City: William Blake's Jerusalem

Coleridge's Later Poetry

Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry

Coleridge's Later Poetry

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Fine Arts

The Traveller in the Evening: The Last Works of William Blake

Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry

The Apocalyptic Sublime