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245 00 $aSpeak silence :$brhetoric and culture in Blake's Poetical sketches /$cedited by Mark L. Greenberg.
260 $aDetroit, Mich. :$bWayne State University Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $a221 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Poetical Sketches: Critical Pivots and Pirouettes /$rMark L. Greenberg --$tSketching Verbal Form: Blake's Poetical Sketches /$rSusan J. Wolfson --$tThe Problem of Originality and Blake's Poetical Sketches /$rStuart Peterfreund --$tTroping the Seasons: Blake's Helio-Poetics and the "Golden Load" /$rThomas A. Vogler --$t"Crouding After Night": Troping and the Sublime in Poetical Sketches /$rVincent A. DeLuca --$tThe Rankest Draught /$rNelson Hilton --$tObtuse Angled Afterword /$rRobert F. Gleckner.
520 $aPublished in 1783, Poetical Sketches was William Blake's first volume of poetry, and his only published work to appear in letterpress. This "little book" has been relegated by some critics to the periphery of the Blake canon. Yet the book's uniqueness and authorship have drawn scholars to it, resulting in often illuminating criticism. Speak Silence continues in this line and represents the first and only collection of essays devoted solely to exploring Poetical Sketches.
520 8 $aMark Greenberg's critical introduction traces the historical tendency both to denigrate and to praise the Sketches. The other chapters in this collection, written by distinguished scholars Susan J. Wolfson, Stuart Peterfreund, Thomas A. Vogler, Vincent DeLuca, Nelson Hilton, and Robert F. Gleckner analyze traditional elements of poetry as they appear in the Sketches.
520 8 $aThis analysis reveals how fully Blake, as a young poet, absorbed these elements and how deftly he manipulated and transvalued them in his early, ambitious, and revolutionary experiments with language, voice, and rhetorical form. This volume also focuses on the Sketches' politics, originality, and complex connections with Blake's poetic precursors and with other cultural institutions.
520 8 $a. What is most compelling about Speak Silence is the way in which the chapters are in dialogue with one another. The collection resembles a conversation between its notable contributors, inviting readers to witness the developmental process of particular ideas about Blake's early art - and its relation to his later work - as they solidify, are transformed, or dissolve.
600 10 $aBlake, William,$d1757-1827.$tPoetical sketches.
650 0 $aLanguage and culture$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aEnglish language$y18th century$xRhetoric.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103113
600 10 $aBlake, William,$d1757-1827$xTechnique.
650 0 $aSilence in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122469
700 1 $aGreenberg, Mark L.,$d1948-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88011937
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