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Poet, painter, and engraver William Blake died in 1827 in obscure poverty with few admirers. The attention paid today to his remarkable poems, prints, and paintings would have astonished his contemporaries. Admired for his defiant, uncompromising creativity, he has become one of the most anthologized and studied writers in English and one of the most studied and collected British artists. His urge to cast words and images into masterpieces of revelation has left us with complex, forceful, extravagant, some times bizarre works of written and visual art that rank among the greatest challenges to plain understanding ever created. This Companion aims to provide guidance to Blake's work in fresh and readable introductions: biographical, literary, art historical, political, religious, and bibliographical. Together with a chronology, guides to further reading, and glossary of terms, they identify the key points of departure into Blake's multifarious world and work.

Blake, William, --- Blake, W. --- Bleĭk, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- בליק, ויליאם, --- בלייק, ויליאם, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Blake, William --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Blake, William, 1757-1827 --- Literatura inglesa (crítica e interpretação). --- Poesia. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Critique et interprétation --- English --- English Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- 820 "17" BLAKE, WILLIAM --- 820 "17" BLAKE, WILLIAM Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799--BLAKE, WILLIAM --- Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799--BLAKE, WILLIAM --- BLAKE, WILLIAM (1757-1827) --- CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION

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Examining William Blake's poetry in relation to the mythographic tradition of the eighteenth century and emphasizing the British discovery of Hindu literature, David Weir argues that Blake's mythic system springs from the same rich historical context that produced the Oriental Renaissance. That context includes republican politics and dissenting theology—two interrelated developments that help elucidate many of the obscurities of Blake's poetry and explain much of its intellectual energy. Weir shows how Blake's poetic career underwent a profound development as a result of his exposure to Hindu mythology. By combining mythographic insight with republican politics and Protestant dissent, Blake devised a poetic system that opposed the powers of Church and King.

Hindu mythology. --- Hinduism in literature. --- Orientalism in literature. --- English poetry --- Brahman mythology --- Mythology, Hindu --- Vedic mythology --- Mythology --- English literature --- Indic influences. --- Brahmā --- Blake, William, --- Blake, W. --- Blake, William --- Blake, William, 1757-1827 --- Bleĭk, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- בליק, ויליאם, --- בלייק, ויליאם, --- Брахма --- Brakhma --- Брама --- Brama --- Βράχμα --- Vrachma --- Brahmao --- ברהמה --- Brahmah --- ブラフマー --- Burafuma --- Braxma --- Phạm Thiên --- 梵天 --- Fan Tian --- Fantian --- In literature. --- Religion. --- Knowledge --- India. --- Mythology. --- Brahmā (Hindu deity) in literature. --- Brahma

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Modern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. But with this pioneering study, Saree Makdisi develops a reliable and comprehensive framework for understanding these peculiarities. According to Makdisi, Blake's poetry and drawings should compel us to reconsider the history of the 1790's. Tracing for the first time the many links among economics, politics, and religion in his work, Makdisi shows how Blake questioned and even subverted the commercial, consumerist, and political liberties that his contemporaries championed, all while developing his own radical aesthetic.

Politics and literature --- Political poetry, English --- Antinomianism in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Economics in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Liberty in literature. --- Freedom in literature --- Liberty as a theme in literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- Blake, William, --- Blake, W. --- Blake, William --- Blake, William, 1757-1827 --- Bleĭk, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- בליק, ויליאם, --- בלייק, ויליאם, --- Political and social views. --- Religion. --- politiek --- slavernij; lijfeigenen en slaven --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- sociale geschiedenis --- 18de eeuw --- Enslaved persons in literature --- literature, liberty, slavery, freedom, politics, history, canon, poetry, romanticism, economics, imperialism, empire, antinomianism, aesthetics, drawings, illustrations, social change, activism, child labor, capitalism, protest, nonfiction, factory, industrialization, poverty, pollution, commodity, life, truth, sublime, class, religion, charity, morality. --- slavernij; lijfeigenen en slaven. --- Blake, William. --- 18de eeuw.