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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... indefinite, which is the opposite of the infinite or eternal, and one of the most sinister words in Blake's symbolism. Clock time is a mental nightmare like all other abstract ideas. An impalpable present vanishing between an ...
... indefinite rather than the eternal. The religious idea of “salvation” depends on transcending this view of time. The man survives the death of the natural part of him as the total form of his imaginative acts, as the human creation out ...
... indefinite space, he does not belong to it at all. Real space for him is the eternal here; where we are is always the center of the universe, and the circumference of our affairs is the circumference of the universe, just as real time ...
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