244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
First published in 1986, this book starts from the premise that Blake’s poem Jerusalem is in effect his defence of human imagination. The formal categories are literary but the aim is the philosophical one of Creating a System. The philosophic meaning emerges from the structure since its form is that of an epic poem.
The argument proceeds plate by plate and topologically within each plate of... Read more
List of Illustrations; Prefatory Note 1. Prologue: Plato, Berkeley and Blake 2. Blake as Artist 3. Attacks upon Jerusalem 4. The Satanic Triumvirate 5. Defenders of Jerusalem 6. Encounters with the Enemy 7. Grim War Continues 8. Jerusalem Restored 9. Epilogue; Index
Biography
Joanne Witke, Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
