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Article: Speak Silence: Rhetoric and Culture in Blake's 'Poetical Sketches'.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 1999
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Speak Silence: Rhetoric and Culture in Blake's 'Poetical Sketches'. Ed. by MARK L. GREENBERG. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. 1996. 221 pp. $39.95; 35.95 [pounds sterling].
Speak Silence is a disappointing book, and a puzzling one. Blake's Poetical Sketches has a unique kind of interest, as his only published book in letterpress and by far his earliest work. Appearing six years before Thel and Songs of Innocence (published when Blake was thirty-two), Poetical Sketches is said to have been written before the author was twenty. In its wild mixture of moods, its diversity of forms, and its technique (especially prosodic technique), it still strikes many as a ...
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Article: William Blake
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... ... teens Blake wrote poems, often setting them to melodies of his own composition. When he was 26, a collection entitled Poetical Sketches was printed with the help of the Reverend and Mrs. Mathew, who conducted a cultural salon and were patrons of Blake ...
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