To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeDoubleday, 1964 - 465 pages |
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Page 435
... Blake , in his conception of Urizen , stresses the ongoing process of energy , which Urizen tries to block and freeze with rational struc- tures . Yet Blake recognizes that Urizen's tyranny is not true reason . Like Wordsworth , Blake ...
... Blake , in his conception of Urizen , stresses the ongoing process of energy , which Urizen tries to block and freeze with rational struc- tures . Yet Blake recognizes that Urizen's tyranny is not true reason . Like Wordsworth , Blake ...
Page 442
... Blake's marginal comments : " To Generalize is to be an Idiot . To Particularize is the Alone distinction of Merit . General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess " ( 451 ) . These observations are a response to Edmund ...
... Blake's marginal comments : " To Generalize is to be an Idiot . To Particularize is the Alone distinction of Merit . General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess " ( 451 ) . These observations are a response to Edmund ...
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... Blake , I am in- debted chiefly to M. O. Percival , William Blake's Circle of Destiny , New York , 1938 ; Northrop Frye , Fearful Symmetry , Princeton , 1947 ; Stanley Gardner , Infinity on the Anvil , Oxford , 1954 ; Robert F. Gleckner ...
... Blake , I am in- debted chiefly to M. O. Percival , William Blake's Circle of Destiny , New York , 1938 ; Northrop Frye , Fearful Symmetry , Princeton , 1947 ; Stanley Gardner , Infinity on the Anvil , Oxford , 1954 ; Robert F. Gleckner ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
DRYDEN AND DIALECTIC | 28 |
ORDER AND LIBERTY | 79 |
Copyright | |
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achieve aesthetic Almanzor Amelia Antony assertion Augustan awareness beauty becomes Blake Blake's Bromion characters Christian Clarissa comic contrast creates creature Defoe Deist dialectical divine doctrine Dryden Dulness Dunciad embodies energy Essay eternal experience false feeling Fielding Fielding's flesh force forms freedom gives happiness harmony heart heaven hero heroic Houyhnhnms human Ian Watt idea imagination Innocence insists kind landscape live Lovelace lovers MacFlecknoe man's Mandeville Mandeville's marriage meaning Milton mock Moll Moll Flanders moral move nature never novel once Oothoon order of charity order of mind Pascal passion pastoral pattern picturesque play pleasure poem poet poetry Pope Pope's pride rational reason Reynolds satire scene seeks seems selfhood sense Shaftesbury Songs of Experience soul spirit spiritual music Sterne sublime Swift Theotormon things Thomson thou thought tion Tiriel Tom Jones tragic transcendence Tristram Tristram Shandy turn Urizen virtue vision words worldly
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