This generous selection from Blake’s poems, prose, notebooks, marginalia, and letters is accompanied by many of the poet’s illuminations for his own works, some in full color. The editors have modified Blake’s original spelling and punctuation for greater accessibility.
Almost all of Blake’s published writings are here, as well as most of the best shorter poems that remained in manuscript at his death, and much of his most energetic prose. Of Blake’s Major epics, Milton is printed in full, in its longest version; Jerusalem is represented by selections amounting to one-third of the complete poem; and The Four Zoas by briefer excerpts. All the other poetic works are presented complete.
"Criticism" includes contemporary responses by Coleridge, Lamb, John Thomas Smith, Frederick Tatham, Henry Crabb Robinson, and Samuel Palmer. Modern critical essays are by T. S. Eliot, Northrop Frye, Jean Hagstrum, Robert F. Gleckner, Irene Tayler, Martin K. Nurmi, Martin Price, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom, and E. J. Rose.
Maps, a Chronology of Blake’s life and times, and a Bibliography of Blake studies are also included.
目录
List of Illustrations
Preface
Chronology
Map: Blake’s Britain
Map: Blake’s London, 1757-1827
Map: The Holy Land
The Texts of the Poems
List of Key Terms
POEMS AND PROPHECIES
From Poetical Sketches
To Spring
To Summer
To Autumn
To Winter
To the Evening Star
To Morning
Song: "How sweet I roam’d"
Song: "My silks and fine array"
Song: "Love and harmony combine"
Song: "I love the jocund dance"
Song: "Memory, hither come"
Mad Song
Song: "Fresh from the dewy hill"
Song: "When early morn walks forth"
To the Muses
Prologue: Intended for a Dramatic Piece of King Edward IV
Prologue to King John
A War Song to Englishmen
[Poems Written in a Copy of Poetical Sketches]
Song by a Shepherd
Song by an Old Shepherd
All Religions Are One (Illuminated Book)
There Is No Natural Religion (Illuminated Book)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Illuminated Book)
Songs of Innocence
Introduction
The Shepherd
The Ecchoing Green
The Lamb
The Little Black Boy
The Blossom
The Chimney Sweeper
The Little Boy Lost
The Little Boy Found
Laughing Song
A Cradle Song
The Divine Image
Holy Thursday
Night
Spring
Nurse’s Song
Infant Joy
A Dream
On Another’s Sorrow
Songs of Experience
Introduction
Earth’s Answer
The Clod & the Pebble
Holy Thursday
The Little Girl Lost
The Little Girl Found
The Chimney Sweeper
Nurse&s Song
The Sick Rose
The Fly
The Angel
The Tyger
My Pretty Rose Tree
Ah! Sun-Flower
The Lilly
The Garden of Love
The Little Vagabond
London
The Human Abstract
Infant Sorrow
A Poison Tree
A Little Boy Lost
A Little Girl Lost
To Tirzah
The School-Boy
The Voice of the Ancient Bard
A Divine Image
The Book of Thel (Illuminated Book)
Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Illuminated Book)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Illuminated Book)
America: A Prophecy (Illuminated Book)
Europe: A Prophecy (Illuminated Book)
The Song of Los (Illuminated Book)
Africa
Asia
The Book of Urizen (Illuminated Book)
The Book of Ahania (Illuminated Book)
The Book of Los (Illuminated Book)
Poems from Blake’s Notebook
I. Working Drafts
London (Drafts ca. 1792)
London (Printed version, 1794)
The Tyger (Drafts, ca. 1792)
The Tyger (Printed Version, 1794)
Infant Sorrow (Drafts, of uncertain date)
Infant Sorrow (Printed Version, 1794)
II. A Projected Plate
"O lapwing thou fliest around the heath"
An answer to the parson
[Experiment]: "Thou hast a lap full of seed"
Riches
"If you trap the moment before its ripe"
III. Vision
Eternity
"Since all the Riches of this World"
To God
To Nobodaddy
"If it is True What the Prophets write"
"The Hebrew Nation did not write it"
"Some Men created for destruction come"
"You dont believe I wont attempt to make ye"
"Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau"
"I will tell you what Joseph of Arimathea"
Merlins prophecy
An ancient Proverb
"The sword sung on the barren heath"
"Why should I care for the men of thames"
"Who will exchange his own fire side"
"Let the Brothels of Paris be opened"
"Great Men & Fools do often me Inspire"
"He whole Life is an Epigram..."
"The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule"
Lacedemonian Instruction
Motto to the Songs of Innocence & of Experience
"Anger & Wrath my bosom rends"
"The Angel that presided oer my birth"
"I am no Homers Hero you all know"
"I heard an Angel singing"
"Terror in the house does roar"
"Great things are done when Men & Mountains meet"
"When Klopstock England defied"
Day
Morning
IV. Love: The Sexes
"What is it men in women do require"
"Abstinence sows sand all over"
"In a wife I should desire"
"When a Man has Married a Wife"
"A Woman Scaly & a Man all Hairy"
"Why was Cupid a Boy"
How to know Love from Deceit
"The look of love alarms"
"Soft deceit & Idleness"
"Silent Silent Night"
"Are not the joys of morning sweeter"
V. Love: Stories
The Fairy
"Never pain to tell they love"
"I feard the fury of my wind"
"I saw a chapel all of gold"
"I laid me down upon a bank"
"I asked a thief to steal me a peach"
Soft Snow
"An old maid early eer I knew"
"Grown old in Love from Seven Times Seven"
The Washer Womans Song
A cradle song
To my Mirtle
"My Spectre around me night & day"
[Related Stanzas]
The Birds
VI. Art and Artists
"Now Art has lost its mental Charms"
To the Queen
"The Caverns of the Grave Ive seen"
"I rose up in the dawn of day"
"You say their Pictures well Painted be"
Blakes apology for his Catalogue
English Encouragement of Art
"The only man that eer I knew"
"Madman I have been calld..."
The Pickering Manuscript
The Smile
The Golden Net
The Mental Traveller
The Land of Dreams
Mary
The Crystal Cabinet
The Grey Monk
Auguries of Innocence
Long John Brown & Little Mary Bell
William Bond
From The Four Zoas
Milton (Illuminated Book)
From Jerusalem (Illuminated Book)
The Ghost of Abel (Illuminated Book)
The Everlasting Gospel
"There is not one moral virtue..."
"If Moral Virtue was Christianity"
"What can this Gospel of Jesus be?"
"Was Jesus Born of a Virgin Pure"
"Was Jesus Humble..."
Was Jesus gentle..."
"Was Jesus Chaste..."
"The Vision of Christ that thou dost see"
To the Accuser who is The God of This World
Related Prose
An Island in the Moon
Prospectus: To the Public
From A Descriptive Catalogue and [An Advertisement]
From A Vision of the Last Judgment
A Public Address to the Chalcographic Society
The Laocoo!n (Yah and His Two Sons)
On Homer’s Poetry
On Virgil
Blake’s Marginalia
On John Casper Lavater, Aphorisms on Man (ca. 1789)
On Emanuel Swedenborg, The Wisdom of Angels, Concerning Divine Love and Divine Wisdom (1788)
On R. Watson, Bishop of Llandoff, An Apology for the Bible...addressed to Thomas Paine (1797)
On Francis Bacon, Essay Moral, Economical and Political (1797)
On Henry Boyd, A Translation of "The Inferno" in English Verse, with Historical Notes (1785)
On The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight, Edited by Edmund Malone (3 volumes) (1798)
On George Berkeley, Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflections (1744)
On William Wordsworth, Preface to The Excursion, Being A Portion of the Recluse, A Poem (1814)
On William Wordsworth, Poems: Including Lyrical Ballads, Vol. I - 1815)
On Robert John Thornton, The Lord’s Prayer, Newly Translated (1827)
Blake’s Letters
To the Reverend Dr. John Trusler, August 23, 1799
To William Hayley, May 6, 1800
To George Cumberland, July 2, 1800
To John Flaxman, September 12, 1800
To William Hayley, September 16, 1800
To Thomas Butts, September 23, 1800
To Thomas Butts, October 2, 1800
To Thomas Butts, January 10, 1802
To Thomas Butts, November 22, 1802 (second letter)
To James Blake, January 30, 1803
To Thomas Butts, April 25, 1803
To Thomas Butts, August 16, 1803
Blake’s Memorandum, August 1803
To William Hayley, October 7, 1802
To William Hayley, October 23, 1804
To William Hayler, December 11, 1805
To Dawson Turner, June 9, 1818
To George Cumberland, April 12, 1827
To Thomas Butts, April 25, 1803 (excerpt)
Criticisms
COMMENTS BY CONTEMPORARIES
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Letter to C.A. Tulk, February 12, 1818
Charles Lamb - Letter to Bernard Barton, May 15, 1824
John Thomas Smith - From Nollekens and his Times (1828)
Frederick Tatham - From "Life of Blake" (1832?)
Henry Crabb Robinson - From Reminiscences (1852)
Samuel Palmer - Letter to Alexander Gilchrist, August 23, 1855
TWENTIETH-CENTURY CRITICISM
T.S. Eliot - William Blake
Northrop Frye - Blake’s Treatment of the Archetype
Jean H. Hagstrum - [On Innocence and Experience]
Robert F. Gleckner - Point of View and Context in Blake’s Songs
Irene Tayler - The Woman Scaly
Martin K. Nurmi - [On The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]
Martin Price - The Standard of Energy
David V. Erdman - America: New Expanses
Harold Bloom - [On Milton]
E.J. Rose - The Symbolism of the Opened Center and Poetic Theory in Blake’s Jerusalem
Bibliography
Index of Titles and First Lines
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评分翻开这本厚重的册子,我首先注意到的不是文字,而是其物理重量和它在手中投下的阴影。我一直对那些试图模糊不同艺术门类边界的作品抱有浓厚的兴趣,特别是当“语言的艺术”遇上“视觉的结构”。我对这本书的期望是,它能提供一套全新的感知框架,让我既能听到诗的韵脚,又能“看”到设计的蓝图。但现实是,这本书更像是一份没有完成的实验报告。诗歌部分,如果我没有理解错的话,似乎大量采用了非传统的句法结构,动词和名词的错位比比皆是,这无疑增加了理解的难度。我花费了大量精力去尝试重建句子的逻辑关系,但这就像在玩一个早已被破坏的拼图游戏,你总觉得缺少了关键的一块,或者某几块是错位的。关于“设计”的部分,它给我的感觉更是飘忽不定。那些图示,它们不是传统意义上的插画或版式设计,更像是拓扑学上的图形,线条的粗细变化似乎遵循着某种复杂的数学公式,而不是美学原则。我试图寻找它们与诗歌中提到的意象之间的对应关系——比如,诗中提到“坍塌的拱门”,设计图上是否对应着一个破碎的几何体?但线索太少,关联性太弱,最终我只能将它们视为两个并行的、互不干涉的文本流。这种并置,与其说是融合,不如说是一种并存的疏离。这本书强迫读者去创造意义,但它提供的原材料又过于稀疏和晦涩,这使得阅读过程变成了一种疲惫的“考古挖掘”。
评分如果用一个词来形容这本书的阅读体验,那可能是“不适感”。这并非指内容本身令人不适,而是指其形式上的种种不妥协。纸张的选择很有趣,它具有一定的粗糙度,这在触感上很有质感,但墨水在上面渗透的方式却有些难以预测,导致某些较深的字迹边缘有些“洇化”,这在追求清晰度的文学作品中是少见的。诗歌的选材,我感觉它专注于描绘那些极端的情绪状态和晦暗的内在景观,这本身是文学的合法领域,但书中的处理方式却显得过于晦涩和自我指涉。很多句子读起来像是对特定哲学流派的内部笑话,缺乏必要的背景铺垫,使得局外人很难跟上其思维的拐点。至于“设计”的呈现,它几乎完全放弃了任何装饰性或辅助性的功能,更像是一种与文字并置的、独立的、几乎是敌对的视觉信息。我曾试图将这些设计元素视为一种“元文本”,即关于文本本身的文本,比如字体大小的变化是否暗示了某个词汇的重要性?但是,这种变化似乎是随机的,或者至少,其规律性是极度不明显的,需要极高的专业知识才能破译。最终,我发现自己在这本书上花费了远超预期的精力,却只获得了零星的、模糊的理解片段。它更像是一件为特定圈子定制的艺术品,而不是一本面向更广泛读者的“诗歌与设计”的范例。它拒绝被轻易阅读,拒绝被轻易理解,这种固执,虽然可以被解读为艺术的纯粹性,但从读者的角度来看,无疑是令人气馁的。
评分说实话,我买这本书纯粹是出于一种“收藏癖”和对“边缘艺术”的好奇心驱使。我总觉得,真正的价值往往隐藏在那些不被主流市场待见的作品里。这本书的装帧工艺确实值得称赞,那种特殊的纸张,散发着一种独特的、混合着木浆和某种化学处理剂的气味,让人联想到老旧的图书馆角落。我本以为,既然是“诗歌与设计”的结合,我可能会看到那种洛可可式的繁复美学,或者至少是新艺术运动那种流畅的线条感。然而,我得到的却是一种极简到近乎苛刻的呈现方式。诗歌的文本被压缩在页面的极小区域,周围留下了大片的留白,这种处理方式,初看之下颇具禅意,但时间一长,就显得过于单调和刻板了。我尝试用不同的灯光、不同的心情去阅读,试图捕捉到那些隐藏在文字背后的“设计感”,比如节奏、结构和空间布局如何呼应了诗歌的主题。但遗憾的是,这种呼应感是极其微弱的,或者说,它只存在于作者的脑海中,并没有有效地传递到阅读者这里。这本书更像是一份个人日记的摘录,里面充满了作者在特定时间点的、高度私密化的思考,这些思考或许对作者本人意义非凡,但对于一个渴望进入其艺术世界的外部观察者来说,缺乏必要的“桥梁”。我感觉自己像一个闯入者,拿着一把钥匙,却找不到合适的锁孔。整体阅读体验是压抑的,不是那种深刻的、引人深思的压抑,而是一种“信息饥饿”的压抑感。
评分这份出版物给我的最大感受是“疏离感”。它在各个层面上都设置了障碍,让你很难轻易地亲近其核心内容。从装帧来看,它采用了某种硬壳精装,但打开后内页却非常松散,书脊的处理方式也使得它很难平摊,这本身就对深度阅读构成了物理上的阻碍。当我试图沉浸于诗歌的情感洪流中时,文本的编排总会突然将我拽出来。例如,有的诗行会被突兀地截断,紧接着是一个大段空白,然后才出现下一个意象的跳跃。这种空间处理,我猜想作者意在营造一种“呼吸的停顿”或“思想的空白”,但在实际阅读中,它带来的却是阅读焦点的混乱和挫败感。更不用提那些所谓的“设计元素”,它们更像是对传统印刷规范的一种挑衅。它们大多是单色的、粗糙的线条构成的符号系统,这些符号在全书范围内并没有形成一个统一的、可识别的视觉语言。它们时而像电路图,时而像某种古老的铭文,但从未明确指向一个可被理解的意义范畴。我努力去寻找作者意图中的“系统性”,希望找到一条逻辑链条,将那些看似随机的诗句和那些晦涩的图形串联起来。然而,这本书似乎刻意地拒绝提供任何明确的索引或注释,它要求读者完全依靠自身的直觉和预设的知识体系去构建理解的桥梁。对于一个更偏爱结构清晰、情感表达直接的读者而言,这本书无疑是一次令人感到迷惘的旅程,它更像是一个哲学思辨的载体,而非一个易于消化的文学作品。
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