Blakes Contrary States by Bill Gillham PAPERBACK 9780521129862

Name: Blakes Contrary States by Bill Gillham PAPERBACK 9780521129862
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Blakes Contrary States\nby Bill Gillham\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Bill Gillham\nTitle: Blakes Contrary States\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: poetry and poets\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521129862\nISBN-10: 0521129869\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn a fresh examination of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, poems which often seem strangely contradictory, Dr Gillham suggests that Blake is not stating his own thoughts and feelings but presenting 'dramatic' statements; he projects himself into other points of view, thus exploring possible states of being and feeling in which spiritual energy expresses itself.\n\nIn a fresh examination of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, poems which often seem strangely cont.