- David V. Erdman
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David V. Erdman was an American literary critic, editor, and Professor Emeritus of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Professor Erdman established his reputation as a William Blake scholar when his Blake: Prophet Against Empire was published in 1954. Jacob Bronowski stated that: "Blake: Prophet Against Empire is the most important book that has been written about Blake... it expounded the view of Blake as a poet of social vision and human protest".[1]
Erdman's edition of Blake's writings (with critical commentary by Harold Bloom) replaced the earlier edition by Sir Geoffrey Keynes and is now the standard text. With his publication of the ground-breaking "The Illuminated Blake," Erdman became the first Blake scholar to interpret Blake's illuminations and their interaction with Blake's poetry.
References
- ^ Shivashankar Mishra , Rise of William Blake, (Mittal Publications, 1995), ISBN 8170992427, Page 148
External links
- David V. Erdman at Library Thing
William Blake Literary works Early writingsPoetical Sketches · An Island in the Moon · All Religions are One · There is No Natural ReligionSongs of InnocenceIntroduction · 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 SorrowSongs of ExperienceIntroduction · Earth's Answer · The Clod and 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 Lily · 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 BardOtherTiriel · The Book of Thel · The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · The French Revolution · Visions of the Daughters of Albion · The Book of Urizen · The Book of Ahania · The Book of Los · The Four Zoas · Milton a Poem · Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion ·The Auguries of Innocence · The Mental Traveller · The Crystal CabinetMythology Art Paintings and printsRelief etching · Engravings for Original Stories from Real Life · The Ancient of Days · The Night of Enitharmon's Joy · Newton · Nebuchadnezzar · Illustrations for Night Thoughts · The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne · Illustrations of Paradise Lost · A Vision of the Last Judgment · Descriptive Catalogue · The Great Red Dragon Paintings · Pity · The Ghost of a Flea · Illustrations of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity · The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides · Illustrations of the Book of Job · The AncientsCriticism and scholarship Scholars and criticsPeter Ackroyd · Donald Ault · Harold Bloom · S. Foster Damon · David V. Erdman · Northrop Frye · Alexander Gilchrist · Geoffrey Keynes · Alicia Ostriker · Kathleen Raine · E. P. ThompsonScholarly worksLife of William Blake · Fearful Symmetry · A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake · Blake: Prophet Against Empire · Witness Against the BeastWikimedia Categories:- American literary critics
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