Blake's Night Thoughts

J. Tambling

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2004
• ISBN:
  9780230505612
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and Blanchot's writings in the twentieth. Taking 'night' as the breakdown of rational progressive thought and of thought based on concepts of identity, the book reads the lyric poetry, some Prophetic works, including a chapter on The Four Zoas, the illustrations to Young, and Dante, and look's at Blake's writing of madness.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• A Note on Texts
• 1 Introduction: ‘The Sun is Gone Down’
• 2 ‘In the Silent of the Night’
• 3 Young and ‘Weary Night’
• 4 Night Dreams: The Four Zoas
• 5 ‘I see London, blind…’
• 6 ‘Forests of the Night’: Blake and Madness
• 7 Dante’s ‘Deep and Woody Way’
• Notes
• Index