Spiritual History: A Reading of William Blake's Vala or the Four Zoas

ISBN-13: 9780198183143 / Twarda / 1996

Lincoln, Andrew

Opis

William Blake's The Four Zoas is one of the most challenging poems in the English language, and one of the most profound. It is also one of the least read of the major poetic narratives of the Romantic period. Spiritual History presents a much-needed introduction to the poem, but it will also be of great interest to those already familiar with it. The first full-length study to examine in detail Blake's numerous manuscript revisions of the poem, Spiritual History shows this much misunderstood poem to be the most extraordinary product of the eighteenth-century tradition of philosophical history.

Recenzje

Andrew Lincoln's learned and carefully argued book is a breath of fresh air. ...there is no doubt that any future study of The Four Zoas will be unable to proceed without reference to Lincoln's staunchly independent and powerfully illuminating Spiritual History. - Peter Otto. Modern Philology. 1998.