Most critical discussions of the intersections of poetry and natural philosophy during the British Romantic period begin with Coleridge , who discusses his extensive ... 10 Janiak , ed . , 2 WILLIAM BLAKE AS NATURAL PHILOSOPHER , 1788–1795.
Author: Joseph Fletcher
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 9781785279522
Category: Literary Criticism
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William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 takes seriously William Blake’s wish to be read as a natural philosopher, particularly in his early works, and illuminates the way that poetry and visual art were for Blake an imaginative way of philosophizing. Blake’s poetry and designs reveal a consistent preoccupation with eighteenth-century natural philosophical debates concerning the properties of the physical world, the nature of the soul, and God’s relationship to the material universe. This book traces the history of these debates, and examines images and ideas in Blake’s illuminated books that mark the development of the monist pantheism in his early works, which contend that every material thing is in its essence God, to the idealism of his later period, which casts the natural world as degenerate and illusory. The book argues that Blake’s philosophical thought was not as monolithic as has been previously characterized, and that his deepening engagement with late eighteenth-century vitalist life sciences, including studies of the asexual propagation of the marine polyp, marks his metaphysical turn. In contrast to the vast body of scholarship that emphasizes Blake’s early religious and political positions, William Blake as Natural Philosopher draws out the metaphysics underlying his commitments. In so doing, the book demonstrates that pantheism is important because it entails an ethics that respects the interconnected divinity of all material objects – not just humans – which in turn spurns hierarchical power structures. If everything is alive and essentially divine, Blake’s early work implies, then everything is worthy of respect and capable of giving and receiving infinite delight. Therefore, one should imaginatively and joyfully immerse oneself in the community of other beings in which one is already enmeshed. Often in the works discussed in this book, Blake offers negative examples to suggest his moral philosophy; he dramatizes the disastrous individual and social consequences of humans behaving as if God were a transcendent, immaterial, nonhuman demiurge, and as if they were separate from and ontologically superior to the degraded material universe that they see as composed of inert, lifeless atoms. William Blake as Natural Philosopher traces the evolution of eighteenth-century debates over the vitalist qualities of life and the nature of the soul both in the United Kingdom and on the continent, devoting significant attention to the natural philosophy of Newton, Locke, Berkeley, Leibniz, Buffon, La Mettrie, Hume, Joseph Priestley, Erasmus Darwin, and many others.
This book traces the history of these debates, and examines images and ideas in Blake's illuminated books that mark the development of the monist pantheism in his early works, which contend that every material thing is in its essence God, ...
Author: Joseph Fletcher
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ISBN: 1785279513
Category: Literary Criticism
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William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 takes seriously William Blake's wish to be read as a natural philosopher, particularly in his early works, and illuminates the way that poetry and visual art were for Blake an imaginative way of philosophizing. Blake's poetry and designs reveal a consistent preoccupation with eighteenth-century natural philosophical debates concerning the properties of the physical world, the nature of the soul, and God's relationship to the material universe. This book traces the history of these debates, and examines images and ideas in Blake's illuminated books that mark the development of the monist pantheism in his early works, which contend that every material thing is in its essence God, to the idealism of his later period, which casts the natural world as degenerate and illusory. The book argues that Blake's philosophical thought was not as monolithic as has been previously characterized, and that his deepening engagement with late eighteenth-century vitalist life sciences, including studies of the asexual propagation of the marine polyp, marks his metaphysical turn. In contrast to the vast body of scholarship that emphasizes Blake's early religious and political positions, William Blake as Natural Philosopher draws out the metaphysics underlying his commitments. In so doing, the book demonstrates that pantheism is important because it entails an ethics that respects the interconnected divinity of all material objects - not just humans - which in turn spurns hierarchical power structures. If everything is alive and essentially divine, Blake's early work implies, then everything is worthy of respect and capable of giving and receiving infinite delight. Therefore, one should imaginatively and joyfully immerse oneself in the community of other beings in which one is already enmeshed. Often in the works discussed in this book, Blake offers negative examples to suggest his moral philosophy; he dramatizes the disastrous individual and social consequences of humans behaving as if God were a transcendent, immaterial, nonhuman demiurge, and as if they were separate from and ontologically superior to the degraded material universe that they see as composed of inert, lifeless atoms. William Blake as Natural Philosopher traces the evolution of eighteenth-century debates over the vitalist qualities of life and the nature of the soul both in the United Kingdom and on the continent, devoting significant attention to the natural philosophy of Newton, Locke, Berkeley, Leibniz, Buffon, La Mettrie, Hume, Joseph Priestley, Erasmus Darwin, and many others.
1795-1877 . Cayley ( kali ) , Sir George . English philosopher ...... 1773-1857 . Celsius , Anders . ... Brande ( brand ) , William Thomas . English chemist .. 1788-1866 . Bravais ( brä'va ' ) , Auguste . Fr. natural philosopher .
1838), Cowper's cousin 'Johnny of Norfolk', friend of Blake, 40, 79, 99, 103, 112 Johnson, Joseph (1738–1809), ... 152; Underwoods, 152 Joseph, husband of Mary, 74, 140 Journal of Natural Philosophy (1811), 52 Jowett, Benjamin, scholar, ...
Author: G.E. Bentley Jnr.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134782369
Category: Literary Criticism
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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
Wm . G. Goddard , that of William Blake , a poet - painter , somewhat mad , as we are LL. ... Private Judgment , a Sermon , 1818 , 12mo . tures on Rhetoric ; First Book in Natural Philosophy ; First Book in Astronomy ; Mrs. Marcet's ...
English physiologist 1837 Carpenter , William Benjamin . ... It . natural philosopher in London 1749–1809 . ... 1788-1878 . Cesalpino , Andrea . It . phy . , physiologist & botanist 1519_1603 Beddoes , Thomas .
Including a Complete and Indexed Atlas of the Globe William Harrison De Puy, Henry Frederic Redall ... Blake , William Phipps . ... Fr. natural philosopher . 1811-1863 . Dana , Samuel Luiher . American chen ist ..... 1795-1868 .
In his " Hints on Various Modes of Printing from Autographs , " Cumberland complimented Blake on his ability to write backwards on copper , calling him one " who alone excels in that art " Journal of Natural Philosophy , Chemistry , and ...
Wm . G. Goddard , that of William Blake , a poet - painter , somewhat mad , as we are LL. ... Private Judgment , a Sermon , 1818 , 12mo . tures on Rhetoric ; First Book in Natural Philosophy ; First Book in Astronomy ; Mrs. Marcet's ...
XXI ; D. W. Dörrbecker , ' The Song of Los : The Munich Copy and a New Attempt to Understand Blake's Images ' , Huntington Library Quarterly , 52 ( 1989 ) , 43-73 . VIII William Nicholson , An Introduction to Natural Philosophy ( 2 vols ...
Author: Robert N. Essick
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: UOM:39015024785183
Category: Artists' preparatory studies
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A major exhibition catalog on the work of William Blake, printmaker, painter and revolutionary poet. The catalog explores the influence on Blake of the master artist-printmakers at the beginnings of the Renaissance, and the inspiration he brought to the young artist-printmakers who gathered around him in the last years of his life.
An Historical Introduction to Human Nature Wayne P. Pomerleau ... 1785 Critique of Practical Reason , 1788 Critique of Judgment , 1790 Moses Mendelssohn , 1729-86 Marquis de Condorcet , 1743-94 William Paley , 1743–1805 Johann Gottfried ...
Author: Wayne P. Pomerleau
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1880157543
Category: Philosophy
Page: 566
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A collection on the historical introduction to human nature.
First Lessons on Natural Philosophy , Parts First and Second , in 2 vols . , Hartford , about 1833 , and editions every ... William Swift , Theophilus , son of Deane Swift , ( supra , ) a Blake ; a Critical Essay , with Illustrations ...
Blake , John . Letter on Inoculation , Lon . , 1771 , 8vo . Blake , John L. , D.D. , 1788-1857 , b . at Northwood , N. H. , grad . ... First Book in Natural Philosophy ; First Book in Astronomy ; Mrs. Marcet's Conversations , 4 vols .
Blake , William . Private Judgment , a Sermon , 1818 , 12mo . Blake , John . Letter on Inoculation , Lon . ... Lec- tures on Rhetoric ; First Book in Natural Philosophy ; First Book in Astronomy ; Mrs. Marcet's Conversations , 4 vols .
Makdisi, Saree (2003) William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. McCalman, Ian (1988) Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London, 1795–1840, ...
Author: Leonidas Montes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134249107
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 352
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In recent years, there has been a resurgence of academic interest in Adam Smith. As a consequence, a large number of PhD dissertations on Smith have been written by international scholars - in different languages, and in many diverse disciplines, including economics, women’s studies, philosophy, science studies, political theory and english literature: diversity which has enriched the area of study. In response to this activity, and in order to making these contributions more easily accessible to other Smith scholars, Leonidas Montes and Eric Schliesser have edited this important new book. Of interest to Smith scholars and those interested in the history of economic thought in general, the contributions to this book are self-consciously interdisciplinary and skilfully employ many different methodologies.
Blake , John . Letter on Inoculation , Lon . , 1771 , 8vo . Blake , John L. , D.D. , 1788–1857 , b . at Northwood , N. H. , grad . ... First Book in Natural Philosophy ; First Book in Astronomy ; Mrs. Marcet's Conversations , 4 vols .
Blake , John . Letter on Inoculation , Lon . , 1771 , 8vo . Blake , John L. , D.D. , 1788–1857 , b . at Northwood , N. II . , grad . ... First Book in Natural Philosophy ; First Book in Astronomy ; Mrs. Marcet's Conversations , 4 vols .
Blake , John . Letter on Inoculation , Lon . , 1771 , 8vo . Blake , John L. , D.D. , 1788-1857 , b . at Northwood , N. H. , grad . ... First Book in Natural Philosophy ; First Book in Astronomy ; Mrs. Marcet's Conversations , 4 vola .
Blake Books Supplement is a continuation of Blake Books (1977), a bibliographical record of publications covering all aspects of William Blake's life and work - his writings, drawings, and engravings - and works of criticism on them. Most of the information in the Supplement was published inthe period 1972-1992, but there are items newly recorded here which appeared as early as the 1790s. The mass of new material is enormous - the last 20 years have produced almost as many items for inclusion as the preceding 200 years covered in the original Blake Books. Some of the most important discoveries concern newly identified writings and engravings by Blake himself. The work is organizedlike Blake Books, enabling the two volumes to be used side by side.