William Blake a Reading of Shorter Poems

by Hazard Adams

"In this large ... book [Prof. Adams] has undertaken a full-length study of a number of the important lyrics and poems, mostly from the Pickering MS. Part I ... makes use of The Tyger to illustrate a ... discussion of Blake's archetypes; Part II is concerned with the later Pickering poems; Part III with the Songs of Innocence and Experience ; Part IV, the Conclusion, is called 'A Judgement of Blake's Styles' ... This laborious, worhy, and painstaking book ... invites our attention to Blake's ironies and tensions. It provides some interesting interpretations, among them that of William Bond . It will certainly be of help to some students of Blake." -- Excerpted from the Editorial Review by T.R. Henn, as published in 1965 in the Modern Language Review

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