The Reception of Blake in the OrientSteve Clark, Masashi Suzuki This volume brings together research from international scholars focusing attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake`s reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. It is designed as not only a celebration of his art and poetry in new and unexpected contexts but also to contest the intensely nationalistic and parochial Englishness of his work, and in broader terms, the inevitable passivity with which Romanticism (and other Western intellectual movements) have been received in the Orient. |
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... poet, who was so much inspired by the poem as to write the striking counterpart, 'Yameru Bara', which means 'the sick rose'. It is thus mostly as a poet that Blake was first introduced and accepted in Japan. It seems, however, Harold ...
... poet, who was so much inspired by the poem as to write the striking counterpart, 'Yameru Bara', which means 'the sick rose'. It is thus mostly as a poet that Blake was first introduced and accepted in Japan. It seems, however, Harold ...
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... poet alone but both as a poet and an engraver; his essays, 'The Outline of Blake's Myth' and 'Blake's Theory of Paintings', still have a lot to offer to us.“ Blake's reception in Japan has late-nineteenth-century roots, but its major ...
... poet alone but both as a poet and an engraver; his essays, 'The Outline of Blake's Myth' and 'Blake's Theory of Paintings', still have a lot to offer to us.“ Blake's reception in Japan has late-nineteenth-century roots, but its major ...
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... poetic influences. The Sierra Leone project is also analysed at length (though without Blakean inflections) by Deidre Coleman, in Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery (2005). See especially Weir 2003. More than 100 items were ...
... poetic influences. The Sierra Leone project is also analysed at length (though without Blakean inflections) by Deidre Coleman, in Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery (2005). See especially Weir 2003. More than 100 items were ...
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... poet himself articulated: 'Egypt . . .Whose Gods are the Powers of this World, Goddess Nature, Who spoil 8c then destroy Imaginative Art' (Laocoön E 274; Keynes [1949] 1971: 777; cf. Roe 1969: 162). Blake's emphasis upon the 'spoiling ...
... poet himself articulated: 'Egypt . . .Whose Gods are the Powers of this World, Goddess Nature, Who spoil 8c then destroy Imaginative Art' (Laocoön E 274; Keynes [1949] 1971: 777; cf. Roe 1969: 162). Blake's emphasis upon the 'spoiling ...
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... poet–printer himself since there was little time for them to have circulated within the book trade. Richard Twiss wrote, 'I suppose the man to be mad'.10 Is that an opinion that could reasonably be formed from sight of the books alone ...
... poet–printer himself since there was little time for them to have circulated within the book trade. Richard Twiss wrote, 'I suppose the man to be mad'.10 Is that an opinion that could reasonably be formed from sight of the books alone ...
Contents
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Blake in the Orient The EarlyTwentiethCentury Japanese Reception | 159 |
Blake in the Orient Later Responses | 235 |
Bibliography | 303 |
Index | 337 |
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