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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... FIRE THE REFINER IN FIRE THE NIGHTMARE WITH HER 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 ...
... fire somewhat like a Guinea?” 0 no, no, I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying, “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.”42 The Hallelujah-Chorus perception of the sun makes it a far more real sun than the guinea ...
... whizzing balls of ice and fire in the sky we see there merely an extension of nature. It is instinctive with the ignorant to worship the sun as the giver of life, and superstition of this sort is described by Blake as THE RISING GOD 39.
... fire.25 Even in those moments when most “we feel that we are greater than we know,” this feeling is not so much one of individuality as of integration into a higher unit or body of life. This body, of course, is ultimately God, the ...
... fire somewhat like a Guinea?” 0 no, no, I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying, “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.” I Question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would Question 21 Window ...