Blake's Margins: An Interpretive Study of the Annotations

✍ Scribed by Hazard Adams

• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 213
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Known for his prophetic and imaginative works of poetry, painting, and printmaking, William Blake was also a prolific reader and annotator of other writers' works. This is the first work of criticism to consider Blake's annotations in their entirety, and it covers such topics as art, poetry, theology, madness and philosophy, as well as the authors Lavater, Swedenborg, Bacon, Spurzheim, Berkeley, and Wordsworth, among others.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Annotations to Johann Caspar Lavater’s Aphorisms
on Man
2. Annotations to Emanuel Swedenborg’s Heaven and Hell, Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, and Divine Providence
3. Annotations to Bishop Richard Watson’s An Apology for the Bible
4. Annotations to Sir Francis Bacon’s Essays Moral, Economical, and Political
5. Annotations to Henry Boyd’s A Translation of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri
6. Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses on Art
7. Annotations to J. C. Spurzheim’s Observations on the Deranged Manifestations of the Mind, or Insanity
8. Annotations to Bishop George Berkeley’s Siris
9. Annotations to William Wordsworth’s Poems and Preface to The Excursion
10. Annotations to Robert John Thornton’s The Lord’s Prayer, Newly Translated
11. Addendum
12. A Note on Blake’s Reading
Index