Unit information: William Blake in 2008/09

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Unit name William Blake
Unit code ENGL20084
Credit points 30
Level of study I/5
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
Unit director Mr. Donaldson
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

Normally the successful completion of appropriate Level 1 English units

Co-requisites

None

School/department Department of English
Faculty Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

Poems studied will include Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and the pre-prophetic books, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Urizen, among others, and the later prophetic and visionary works, Milton and Jerusalem. Prose studied will include The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blake's writings about his engravings and paintings, and his annotations and letters. Blake's changing critical reputation will be a secondary but sustained concern.