William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Paperback)

AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: 'Piping Down the Valleys Wild'.- 1. Producing 'Songs': 'In a Book that All May Read'.- 2. Blake's Contemporaries on 'Songs': Simplicity, Madness, Genius and Swedenborgianism.- 3. Reviving Blake in the 1820s and 1830s: Obituaries, Biographies and the First New Editions.- 4. Enshrining Blake in the 1860s and 1870s: Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism and Counter-Attack.- 5. Blake and the Moderns: Symbolism and Scholarship.- 6. The Post-War Foundations: System, Myth and History.- 7. Freedom and Repression in the 1960s and 1970s: Form, Ideology and Gender.- 8. Blake's Composite Art in the 1980s and 1990s: Textuality and the Materiality of the Book.- 9. Worlding Blake Today: 'Past, Present and Future Sees'.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.