This book examines whether Blake's 'visions'—visual, auditory, and visual hallucinations—actually derive from several types of synaesthesia. Blake is a celebrated 'visionary,' and yet his ‘visions’ have not been discussed. Worrall draws on neuroscience to examine both Blake’s visual art and writings to question the rumours about Blake's insanity.
Walter Pater was a significant figure for the institutionalisation of English studies at British universities during the nineteenth century. As part of this collection, Luise Calè discusses Pater's response to Blake.
Gordon Cameron Sly examines Britten's selection and arrangement of songs and cycles—including William Blake's Songs and Proverbs—to better understand the cycles' extra-musical communication.
Within this collection of essays, written and edited by Portuguese and Spanish academics, two chapters discuss the impact and reception of William Blake within Spanish, Catalonian, and Galician culture
Andrew Cooper's book ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.
Matthew Leporati explores James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' as an adaptation of Blake's 'Jerusalem' through Blake's subversive ideas about the epic and empire.
Delayed because of COVID, William Blake: Visionary at the J. Paul Getty Museum promises to be one of the biggest and most important exhibitions of Blake's works ever.
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