Blake's sublime allegory; essays on The four Zoas, Milton, Jerusalem.
William Blake seemed fully resigned to remain a prophet without honor in his own country. In presenting this collection of fourteen original essays, the editors hope to assist in altering our perspective of Blake and his work, by offering a multitude of interpretations from which we can construct a...
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University of Wisconsin Press
[1973]
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Table of Contents:
- The aim of Blake's prophecies and the uses of Blake criticism / Jerome J. McGann
- Opening the seals: Blake's epics and the Milton tradition / Joseph Anthony Wittreich, Jr.
- Time and space in Blake's major prophecies / Ronald L. Grimes
- Los, pilgrim of eternity / Edward J. Rose
- Babylon revisited, or the Story of Luvah and Vala / Jean H. Hagstrum
- The figure of the garment in The four Zoas, Milton, and Jerusalem / Morton D. Paley
- Visions in Vala: a consideration of some pictures in the manuscript / John E. Grant
- On reading The four Zoas: inscape and analogy / Mary Lynn Johnson and Brian Wilkie
- Say first! What mov'd Blake? Blake's Comus designs and Milton / Irene Tayler
- "The hem of their garments": the Bard's song in Milton / James Rieger
- Blake's radical comedy: dramatic structure as meaning in Milton / W.J.T. Mitchell
- William Blake and his reader in Jerusalem / Roger R. Easson
- The structures of Jerusalem / Stuart Curran
- Delivering Jerusalem / Karl Kroeber.