Selfhood and Redemption in Blake's Songs

by Harold Pagliaro

This reading of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience provides a more immediate sense of Blake's psychology of redemption and a more penetrating treatment of the role of death and sexuality in the Songs than is available in any other scholarly work. Pagliaro shows that the Songs not only anticipate the redemption generally associated with the later poems, but also make it available in such psychological detail as to give new meaning to Selfhood,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027100603X
• ISBN13: 9780271006031
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"