Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William BlakeThis brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the riddles of the longer poems, the so-called "Prophecies," and a demonstration of Blake's insight that will amaze the modern reader. The first section of the book shows how Blake arrived at a theory of knowledge that was also, for him, a theory of religion, of human life and of art, and how this rigorously defined system of ideas found expression in the complicated but consistent symbolism of his poetry. The second and third parts, after indicating the relation of Blake to English literature and the intellectual atmosphere of his own time, explain the meaning of Blake's poems and the significance of their characters. |
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... NINEFOLD PART THREE ~ THE FINAL SYNTHESIS COMUS AGONISTES THE CITY OF GOD THE BURDEN OF THE VALLEY OF VISION 147 187 227 269. GENERAL NOTE! BLAKE'S MYSTICISM NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS NOTES TO THE TEXT INDEX 43 1 433 435 451 Contents.
... final impact of the work of art itself, which includes not only the superficial meaning but all the subordinate meanings which can be deduced from it.11 It is therefore hoped that if the reader finds his ideas of Blake at all clarified ...
... final revelation of the unfallen world all mystery will vanish: John's symbol is the burning of the Great Whore who is called Mystery. Such a revelation involves the destruction of the present world, when the sun will be turned into ...
... final revelation of the Word which God speaks to his mind, that the whole “outside” universe is a shadow of an eclipsed Man. .5. ACCORDING to Locke ideas come from space into the mind; according to Blake space is a state of mind. But ...
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