William Blake on His Poetry and Painting: A Study of a Descriptive Catalogue, Other Prose Writings and Jerusalem

Product description From the Inside Flap Blake was not only a poet, but also a prolific commentator on both his own art and art in general. This is the first text to discuss all of the writings except the annotations to Reynolds' Discourses, covered in a previous volume, Blake's Margins (McFarland, 2009). Topics include his opinions on his predecessors and his contemporaries, his reaction to critics, and his artistic intentions. This valuable addition to Blake scholarship includes reproductions of some of the drawings and paintings in Blake's one exhibition of 1809, plus reproductions of other prose texts by Blake. About the Author Professor emeritus at the University of Washington's department of comparative literature, Hazard Adams lives in Shelton, Washington. He is known internationally as a scholar of William Blake, W.B. Yeats, Joyce Cary, and the history of criticism.