Blake's Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument, Volume 10Doubleday, 1963 - 454 pages William Blake was the messiah of the imagination; in poem after poem he reached the everlasting gospel of the intellect and will; a once-in-a-lifetime "original", he lived and died virtually unknown, unhonored. Since the 20th century, however, he's become the grand prix of the illuminati, a legendary figure whose message to mankind is full of, for some, visionary greatness, for others, mystical gibberish. Harold Bloom, one of Yale's up-and-coming faculty men, clearly belongs with the rooters, and his critique, an elaborate, eminently enthusiastic examination of all the verse, but most especially Milton, Jerusalem and The Four Zoas, should prove a sell-out with Blake scholars and fans. According to Bloom, Blake was insistently apocalyptic rather than biblically prophetic; his tapestry melded the symbolic lands of Beulah and Eden, the transformation of Innocence and Experience, the fall and resurrection of Man, the union of Good and Evil, those creative Contraries. |
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
Natural Religion and Imagination | 23 |
The Voice in the Wilderness | 30 |
Copyright | |
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abyss Ahania Angel apocalypse Bard Bard's beauty become begins Beulah Blake body Book of Job Book of Urizen bosom Bromion chaos chapter cloud contraries creation creative cycle dark Daughters of Albion death Deism delight delusion desire Divine earth Emanation engraved Enion Enitharmon epic error Eternity existence eyes fall fallen fear female fire Four Zoas Frye Fuzon holy human imaginative intellectual ironic irony Jehovah Jerusalem Jesus lament Los's Luvah man's Marriage of Heaven Milton moral morning Mystery myth natural religion Night Ololon Oothoon Palamabron Paradise Lost passage pity plate poem poem's poet poetic poetry prophecy prophetic Rahab redeemed Rintrah rock Satan satire seeks sense sexual shadow sleep Songs of Experience Songs of Innocence sons soul Spectre of Urthona spirit stanza tears Tharmas thee Thel Theotormon thou thro Tiriel Tirzah torment Tree Tree of Mystery Tyger Ulro Vala vales vision voice weeping