Fearful symmetry : a study of William Blake / by Northrop Frye, with a new foreword by Nicholas Halmi.
2025
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Title
Fearful symmetry : a study of William Blake / by Northrop Frye, with a new foreword by Nicholas Halmi.
Author
Edition
First Princeton Calssics paperback edition.
ISBN
0691278105
9780691278100 (paperback)
9780691278100 (paperback)
Published
Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2025.
Copyright
©2025
Language
English
Description
xxi,462 pages ; 21 cm
Exhibited
2024-2025 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1506132506
Summary
"This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the riddles of the longer poems, the so-called "Prophecies," and a demonstration of Blake's insight that will amaze the modern reader. The first section of the book shows how Blake arrived at a theory of knowledge that was also, for him, a theory of religion, of human life and of art, and how this rigorously defined system of ideas found expression in the complicated but consistent symbolism of his poetry. The second and third parts, after indicating the relation of Blake to English literature and the intellectual atmosphere of his own time, explain the meaning of Blake's poems and the significance of their characters"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
"First published in 1947"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (in "Notes" (p. [435]-450) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Part One : The argument. The case against Locke
The rising God
Beyond good and evil
A literalist of the imagination
The word within the word
Part Two : The development of the symbolism. Tradition and experiment
The thief of fire
The refiner in fire
The nightmare with her ninefold
Part Three : The final synthesis. Comus agonistes
The city of God
The burden of the valley of vision.
The rising God
Beyond good and evil
A literalist of the imagination
The word within the word
Part Two : The development of the symbolism. Tradition and experiment
The thief of fire
The refiner in fire
The nightmare with her ninefold
Part Three : The final synthesis. Comus agonistes
The city of God
The burden of the valley of vision.
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Princeton classics.
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