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Fearful Symmetry : A Study of William Blake / Northrop Frye.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1947Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (488 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691012919
  • 9781400847471
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.54 813/.54 821.7
LOC classification:
  • PR4147.F7
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Part One. The Argument -- 1. The Case Against Locke -- 2. The Rising God -- 3. Beyond Good and Evil -- 4. A Literalist of the Imagination -- 5. The Word Within the Word -- Part Two. The Development of the Symbolism -- 6. Tradition and Experiment -- 7. The Thief of Fire -- 8. The Refiner in Fire -- 9. The Nightmare with Her Ninefold -- Part Three. The Final Synthesis -- 10. Comus Agonistes -- 11. The City of God -- 12. The Burden of the Valley of Vision -- Notes -- Index
Summary: This 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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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Part One. The Argument -- 1. The Case Against Locke -- 2. The Rising God -- 3. Beyond Good and Evil -- 4. A Literalist of the Imagination -- 5. The Word Within the Word -- Part Two. The Development of the Symbolism -- 6. Tradition and Experiment -- 7. The Thief of Fire -- 8. The Refiner in Fire -- 9. The Nightmare with Her Ninefold -- Part Three. The Final Synthesis -- 10. Comus Agonistes -- 11. The City of God -- 12. The Burden of the Valley of Vision -- Notes -- Index

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This 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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