William Blake (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

William Blake is known as one of the 19th centuries greatest poets and prophets of the imagination. In this volume numerous critics examine his poetry, including the titles Jerusalem, Milton, and The Four Zoas. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts presents critical essays that reflect a variety of schools of criticism on the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature. Each volume also contains an introductory essay by Harold Bloom, critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index.