Project Gutenberg 2011-05-02 Public domain in the USA. 182 Swinburne, Algernon Charles 1837 1909 Maitland, Thomas Maitland, A. C. (Algernon Charles) 07010029 William Blake: A Critical Essay E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) "William Blake: A Critical Essay" by Algernon Charles Swinburne is a literary critique written in the late 19th century. The book serves as a comprehensive examination of the life and works of the visionary poet and artist William Blake, highlighting his unique contributions to art and literature. The author draws on Blake’s lesser-known designs and poems to illuminate the depth of his genius and the challenges he faced in gaining recognition during his lifetime. The opening of the essay introduces Blake’s life and legacy, emphasizing his struggle against conventional expectations of art and poetry. Swinburne paints a vivid picture of Blake as a passionate and unconventional figure whose ideas were often ahead of his time. He reflects on Blake’s deep and sometimes chaotic spirituality, his revolutionary artistic expressions, and the complex relationships he maintained with other artists and critics of his era. The narrative sets the stage for a deeper exploration of Blake’s lyrical and prophetic writings, indicating that there is much more to his work than a surface-level interpretation might suggest. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/35995/35995-h/images/title.jpg en Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography Poets, English -- 18th century -- Biography Artists -- England -- Biography Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation Art and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century Art and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century ND PR Text Browsing: Art & Photography Browsing: Biographies Browsing: Literature 712117 711860 2024-09-15T09:28:43.003783 2023-09-15T14:40:12.649175 text/html text/html 734669 2011-05-02T17:58:27 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 4122503 2011-05-02T18:03:01 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 4124410 2024-09-15T09:28:54.751740 application/epub+zip 4132261 2024-09-15T09:28:45.252765 application/epub+zip 405203 2024-09-15T09:28:43.990877 application/epub+zip 4326895 2024-09-15T09:29:00.974728 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 4314290 2024-09-15T09:28:52.966752 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 595585 2022-09-16T12:49:30.779672 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 637617 637421 2024-09-15T09:28:41.677818 2023-09-15T14:40:11.405169 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 637144 2011-05-02T17:54:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 255880 2011-05-02T17:54:31 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 637188 2011-05-02T17:54:31 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 255721 2011-05-02T17:54:31 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22262 2024-09-15T09:29:01.129677 application/rdf+xml 20203 2024-09-15T09:28:44.102798 image/jpeg 2744 2024-09-15T09:28:44.048771 image/jpeg 4161763 2024-09-15T09:28:43.126778 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia