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Eternity's sunrise : the imaginative world of William Blake /

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"William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Damrosch, Leopold (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Connecticut] ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Blake, William, > 1757-1827.
Poets, English > 18th century > Biography.
Poets, English > 19th century > Biography.
Artists > England > Biography.
Artists.
Poets, English.
England.
1700-1899
Biographies.
Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • The working artist
  • How should we understand Blake's symbols?
  • Innocence
  • Experience
  • Revolution
  • Atoms and visionary insight
  • "The gate is open"
  • Understanding Blake's myth
  • The Zoas and ourselves
  • The prophetic call
  • Breakthrough to apocalypse
  • "The torments of love and jealousy"
  • The female will
  • Wrestling with God
  • The traveler in the evening.