The Traveller in the Evening is a study of Blake's poetry, art, and thought during the last years of his life, from 1818 to 1827. Morton Paley considers some of Blake's major accomplishments, including Blake's wood engravings for Thornton's Virgil , the separate plate known as T…
"This is a study of Blake's poetry, art, and thought during the last years of his life, from 1818 to 1827. Morton Paley considers some of Blake's major accomplishments, including Blake's wood engravings for Thornton's Virgil, the separate plate known as The Laocoon, 101 illustra…
William Blake on self and soul
Introduction: the impossible self -- Empiricism and despair -- Wordsworth, Plato, and Blake -- The four Zoas: transcendental remorse -- Milton: the guarded gates -- Jerusalem: the will to solitude.
Introduction: the impossible self -- Empiricism and despair -- Wordsworth, Plato, and Blake -- The four Zoas: transcendental remorse -- Milton: the guarded gates -- Jerusalem: the will to solitude.
"It has been clear form the beginning that William Blake was both a political radical and a radical psychologist, and in "William Blake on Self and Soul", Laura Quinney uses her sensitive, surprising readings of the poet to reveal his innovative ideas about the experience of sub…