Blake's notebooks after his death disclose an unfinished poem titled "The Everlasting Gospel." The message of the poem is enduring, and presents a humanist document with few parallels and perhaps no predecessors. Blake's personality was seen by his contemporaries as part genius, part naif-just the combination to touch areas of sensibility remote from the rest of us. But in fact good and evil are not at all remote, they are simply removed from our daily considerations. To live with such consciousness, and with such conviction to shout against the platitudes of our lives, may be possible only...
Blake's notebooks after his death disclose an unfinished poem titled "The Everlasting Gospel." The message of the poem is enduring, and presents a hum...
The Supplement Edition of Leaves of Grass includes the text, a supplement section of typical questions, such as What did the first readers say? What were Whitman's influences?, plus a bibliography of Whitman's own work and critics of his work, glossary for terms not in modern use. Also appended is the last statement that Whitman made about the writing of Leaves of Grass, called A Backward Glance Over Traveled Roads (1888). 246pp. For an interactive pdf version, go to www.bandannabooks.com/ebooks/leavessuppeb.php The original edition of Leaves of Grass had just 95 pages of poetry, and a...
The Supplement Edition of Leaves of Grass includes the text, a supplement section of typical questions, such as What did the first readers say? What w...
