The long and winding road from Blake to the Beatles

By Matthew Schneider

Subjects: English Poets, Blake, william, 1757-1827, Music and literature, Transatlantic aesthetics and culture, Beatles, Authors, english, Poets, Poets, English, History

Description: "The story of the Beatles begins not with the rock-'n'-roll revolution of the 1950s, but in the Romantic revolution of the 1790s, when age-old notions about literature, politics, education, and social relations changed forever. Tracing the Beatles to their late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century poetic, musical, and philosophic roots, The Long and Winding Road from Blake to the Beatles weaves literary criticism and cultural analysis together to how the Fab Four - in their songs, personalities, and relations with each other - mirror the themes and history of Anglo-American Romanticism."--Jacket.