Fearful symmetry
Frye, Northrop
Fearful symmetry : a study of William Blake - Boston Beacon Press c1947 - 462p.; ill.; bibliog. notes; index - (Beacon paperback: 142) .
1st pub. as a Beacon Paperback in 1962 by arrangement with Princeton Univ. Press.
Part 1 - 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 2 - 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 3 - The final synthesis. 10 Comus Agonistes. 11 The city of God. 12 The burden of the valley of vision. General note: Blake's mysticism. Notes on the illustrations. Notes to the text
'An intelligent and beautifully written critical interpretation of the poetry and symbolic thought of William Blake....does not become elegiac or obscure, as so many Blake scholars do, nor does he lean on the word 'mysticism' which Blake himself never used in speaking of his work....' --The New Yorker
Paperback
Blake, William, 1757-1827
Fearful symmetry : a study of William Blake - Boston Beacon Press c1947 - 462p.; ill.; bibliog. notes; index - (Beacon paperback: 142) .
1st pub. as a Beacon Paperback in 1962 by arrangement with Princeton Univ. Press.
Part 1 - 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 2 - 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 3 - The final synthesis. 10 Comus Agonistes. 11 The city of God. 12 The burden of the valley of vision. General note: Blake's mysticism. Notes on the illustrations. Notes to the text
'An intelligent and beautifully written critical interpretation of the poetry and symbolic thought of William Blake....does not become elegiac or obscure, as so many Blake scholars do, nor does he lean on the word 'mysticism' which Blake himself never used in speaking of his work....' --The New Yorker
Paperback
Blake, William, 1757-1827