Blake and Modern Literature

William Blake is one of the most important influences on twentieth-century literature. This study will ask why he is a figure central to the Modernist re-definition of past art. He also appears to be an acceptable sage for postmodernists, he can be associated with an opposition to authority without imposing one version of his own mythology.

Author: E. Larrissy
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/01/2006
Pages: 188
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9781349521043

About the Author
EDWARD LARRISSY is Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. He read English at Oxford, and has taught at the universities of Warwick and Keele. He has published books on Blake, on Modern and Contemporary Poetry and on Yeats.