War of Titans: Blake’s Critique of Milton and the Politics of ReligionIn a dramatically original analysis, Jackie DiSalvo explores Blake’s reworking of Genesis and Paradise Lost in his prophetic poem The Four Zoas, creating a compelling new reading of both Milton and Blake. With informed argument and provocative insights, DiSalvo shows how Blake’s view of history prefigures the revaluation of our own myths of origin prompted by new political, psychological, and feminist perspectives. |
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... liberty and power led to contradictions which drove them to disillusion and despair , " the melancholy waste of hopes o'erthrown " ( Prelude II.448 ) . Having expected the French Revolution to bring back " the bowers of Paradise ...
... liberty and power led to contradictions which drove them to disillusion and despair , " the melancholy waste of hopes o'erthrown " ( Prelude II.448 ) . Having expected the French Revolution to bring back " the bowers of Paradise ...
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... Liberty of conscience , falsely so called , may in good time improve itself into liberty of estates and liberty of houses , and liberty of wives and , in a word , liberty of perdition of souls and bodies . " 69 The 1650s saw men of ...
... Liberty of conscience , falsely so called , may in good time improve itself into liberty of estates and liberty of houses , and liberty of wives and , in a word , liberty of perdition of souls and bodies . " 69 The 1650s saw men of ...
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... liberty retains this class character . " To be free , " he tells us , is not only " to be pious , wise , just , and temperate , " but also " careful of one's property " and " aloof from another's " ( YP IV.684 ) . Liberty , he presumes ...
... liberty retains this class character . " To be free , " he tells us , is not only " to be pious , wise , just , and temperate , " but also " careful of one's property " and " aloof from another's " ( YP IV.684 ) . Liberty , he presumes ...
Contents
Critical Introduction | 3 |
Milton and the Line of Prophecy | 21 |
A New Church of the Active Life | 46 |
Copyright | |
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