Constructive Vision and Visionary Deconstruction: Los, Eternity, and the Productions of Time in the Later Poetry of William Blake

ISBN-13: 9780198117513 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 256 str.

Peter Otto

Opis

Focusing on the tension in Blake's poetry between doubt and belief, this book offers a new account of the way Blake's major prophecies work and of the strategies they employ. Offering a radically new reading of Milton and Jerusalem, Otto argues that the autonomous, world-forming imagination is subject to visionary deconstruction. He demonstrates that rather than subordinating existence to perception, the poems attempt to induce their readers to action.

Recenzje

'Otto's emphases permit him some most illuminating expositions of difficult texts, such as the Bard's song from Milton.' Edward Larrissy. University of Keele. Notes and Queries. Sept '94