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Article: William Blake's Poetry A Reader's Guide.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2008
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Roberts, Jonathan. 2007. William Blake's Poetry A Reader's Guide. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. $75.00 hc. $14.95 sc. xii + 124 pp.
The strengths of Jonathan Roberts's William Blake's Poetry largely depend upon the uses to which it is put. The volume is Roberts's contribution to Continuum's Reader's Guides Series, which Continuum promotes as "clear, concise and accessible introductions ... ideal for undergraduate students." With this goal in mind Roberts's book is an almost ideal introductory guide for undergraduate students first coming to Blake: clearly and concisely written, short and accessible, inexpensive in its paperback issue, and ...