Blake and the CityBucknell University Press, 2006 - 235 หน้า Though usually classified as a Romantic, Blake subverts and dissolves the binaries on which Romanticism turns: self and other, art and nature, country and city. Rather than reject the city outright like many of his contemporaries, Blake embraces it as the intricate workshop of human imagination. Each chapter of this book focuses on a specific text of Blake's that illustrates a particular conception of metaphorical embodiment of the city. These shifting metaphors emphasize the construction of all human environments and the need for imaginative labor to build and interpret them. This study seeks to bridge a gap between transcendent and historicist readings of Blake while at the same time challenging assumptions that still color our view of the city in the twenty-first century. Jennifer Davis Michael is Associate Professor of English at the University of the South. |
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... death " ( E 364 ) can also reverse that process , as the furnace and the loom become instruments of mercy in creat- ing bodies and eternal artistic forms . Blake , in other words , was no primitivist when it came to technology : in his ...
... death " ( E 364 ) can also reverse that process , as the furnace and the loom become instruments of mercy in creat- ing bodies and eternal artistic forms . Blake , in other words , was no primitivist when it came to technology : in his ...
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... Death's Door " may refer to the name of a tavern frequented by undertakers . Certainly it would be a grievous error to discuss Blake's cities as though they were pure products of imagination . " I write in South Molton Street , what I ...
... Death's Door " may refer to the name of a tavern frequented by undertakers . Certainly it would be a grievous error to discuss Blake's cities as though they were pure products of imagination . " I write in South Molton Street , what I ...
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... which Laurence Lerner describes as the Arcadian's retreat into memory , " the re- signed preference of a conservative . " 40 However deep his sympathies for the villagers , to mourn the death of the 50 BLAKE AND THE CITY.
... which Laurence Lerner describes as the Arcadian's retreat into memory , " the re- signed preference of a conservative . " 40 However deep his sympathies for the villagers , to mourn the death of the 50 BLAKE AND THE CITY.
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Jennifer Davis Michael. for the villagers , to mourn the death of the village is to preserve its corpse in his poem , outside time and unattainable , a " Cold Pas- toral . " 41 42 By contrast , " Holy Thursday " never once uses the past ...
Jennifer Davis Michael. for the villagers , to mourn the death of the village is to preserve its corpse in his poem , outside time and unattainable , a " Cold Pas- toral . " 41 42 By contrast , " Holy Thursday " never once uses the past ...
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... death . The black boy's mother redefines his body as a " shady grove " en- abling the soul " to bear the beams of love " ( E 9 ) , thus identifying the time on earth as a " little space " akin to pastoral retreat , rather than a period ...
... death . The black boy's mother redefines his body as a " shady grove " en- abling the soul " to bear the beams of love " ( E 9 ) , thus identifying the time on earth as a " little space " akin to pastoral retreat , rather than a period ...
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Prophetic Labor and Creation of Space Lambeth and The Four Zoas | 75 |
The City as Body Milton | 113 |
The City as Text Jerusalem | 158 |
Notes | 200 |
Bibliography | 216 |
Index | 228 |
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Albion appears artistic becomes begins Blake body building built called chapter city's comes construction created creation culture dark death defined describes Earth Emanation Enitharmon environment Eternity existence experience face fact fall fields Four Zoas frame functions garden gates give golden Golgonooza hand heaven houses human idea ideal imagination Innocence Jerusalem John labor land landscape limited lines live London lyric material means metaphor Milton mind nature Night offers organic particular pastoral physical plate poem poet poetry points political present Press printed prophetic puts reader refer represents Romantic ruins rural seems seen sense separate shape social society Songs soul space Stone streets structure suggests takes Tharmas things tion turn University urban Urizen Vala vision walking walls whole Wordsworth writing
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หน้า 92 - Then stay'd the fervid wheels, and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things. One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure, And said, Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world.
หน้า 170 - All things acted on Earth are seen in the bright Sculptures of Los's Halls, & every Age renews its powers from these Works With every pathetic story possible to happen from Hate or Wayward Love ; & every sorrow & distress is carved here, 65 Every Affinity of Parents, Marriages & Friendships are here In all their various combinations wrought with wondrous Art, All that can happen to Man in his pilgrimage of seventy years.
หน้า 90 - No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lap-wing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all. And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land.
หน้า 53 - Then naked and white, all their bags left behind, They rise upon clouds and sport in the wind ; And the angel told Tom if he'd be a good boy, He'd have God for his father and never want joy.
หน้า 46 - HOLY THURSDAY. Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, — Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand? Is that trembling cry a song? Can it be a song of joy? And so many children poor? It is a land of poverty! And their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare, And their ways are filled with thorns, It is eternal winter there.
หน้า 195 - According to the subject of discourse & every Word & Every Character Was Human according to the Expansion or Contraction, the Translucence or Opakeness of Nervous fibres such was the variation of Time & Space Which vary according as the Organs of Perception vary & they walked To & fro in Eternity as One Man reflecting each in each & clearly seen And seeing: according to fitness & order.
หน้า 59 - PITY would be no more If we did not make somebody Poor; And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as we.
หน้า 15 - COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river...