William Blake: Essays For S. Foster Damon

by William Blake & Alvin H. Rosenfeld [ed.] (Editor)

Collection of 20 plus essays on William Blake in honor of Samuel Foster Damon (1893-1971), noted Blake scholar and author of William Blake, His Philosophy and Symbols (1924) and A Blake Dictionary (1965); introduction by Malcolm Cowley and 18 page S. Foster Damon bibliography. 31 black and white plates.

Contents:

S. FOSTER DAMON, THE NEW ENGLAND VOICE, by Malcolm Cowley
S. FOSTER DAMON; A BIBLIOGRAPHY, by E.D. Costa and E.C. Wescott.

BLAKE AND THE POSTMODERN, Hazard Adams
THE VISIONARY CINEMA OF ROMANTIC POETRY, Harold Bloom
BLAKE'S MILTONIC MOMENT, Harold Fisch
BLAKE AND THE PROGRESS OF POESY, G.H. Hartman
BLAKE AND SHELLEY; BEYOND THE UROBOROS, Daniel Hughes
WILLIAM BLAKE AND D.H. LAWRENCE, Vivian de Sola Pinto
THE EVOLUTION OF BLAKE'S LARGE COLOR PRINTS OF 1795, Martin Butlin
BLAKE'S 1795 COLOR PRINTS; AN INTERPRETATION, Anne T. Kostelanetz
BLAKE'S NIGHT THOUGHTS; AN EXPLORATION OF THE FALLEN WORLD, Morton D. Paley.
THE THUNDER OF EGYPT, Albert S. Roe
BLAKE AND THE KABBALAH, Asloob Ahmad Ansari
BLAKE'S READING OF THE BOOK OF JOB, Northrop Frye
THE DIVINE TETRAD IN BLAKE'S JERUSALEM, by George Mills Harper
VISIONS IN THE DARKSOM AIR; ASPECTS OF BLAKE'S BIBLICAL SYMBOLISM, Paul Miner
MATERIA PRIMA IN A PAGE OF BLAKE'S VALA, Piloo Nanavutty
NEGATIVE SOURCES IN BLAKE, Martin K. Nurmi
BLAKE'S VERBAL TECHNIQUE, R.F. Gleckner
TWO FLOWERS IN THE GARDEN OF EXPERIENCE, John E. Grant
THE FLY, Jean H. Hagstrum
A NOTE ON BLAKE'S UNFETTERED VERSE, Kathleen Raine
A TEMPORARY REPORT ON TEXTS OF BLAKE, David V. Erdman
THE WILLIAM BLAKE TRUST, by Geoffrey Keynes

498 pages, Hardcover

First published December 15, 1969