Unveiling Blake’s Subversive Harmony: The Juxtapositional Prosodic Method in Holy Thursday (Songs of Innocence)
LAU Beirut Campus, Gezairi Building 403
The Department of English and Creative Arts at the School of Arts and Sciences cordially invites you to attend the following presentation as part of its Departmental Brown Bag Lecture Series.
About the event
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At first glance, William Blake’s Holy Thursday (Songs of Innocence) depicts the heartwarming scene of brightly clad charity-school children parading towards St. Paul’s Cathedral to join the congregation in hymn and prayer. On closer inspection, however, the poem’s metrical variation, barbed similes, and juxtapositional prosodic method jointly condemn the cold, profit-driven nature of the charity system, which he calls the “cold and usurious hand” in his companion poem from Songs of Experience.
About the people
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Dr. Francesca Cauchi
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Dr. Francesca Cauchi is an independent scholar and a leading expert on William Blake. Her work, which has been published in numerous academic journals and presented internationally, focuses on the intricate connections between Blake’s poetry, philosophy, and artistic practice. She is the acclaimed author of The Evolution of Blake’s Myth.