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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake Paperback - 1969

by Northrop Frye


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This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the riddles of the longer poems, the so-called "Prophecies," and a demonstration of Blake's insight that will amaze the modern reader. The first section of the book shows how Blake arrived at a theory of knowledge that was also, for him, a theory of religion, of human life and of art, and how this rigorously defined system of ideas found expression in the complicated but consistent symbolism of his poetry. The second and third parts, after indicating the relation of Blake to English literature and the intellectual atmosphere of his own time, explain the meaning of Blake's poems and the significance of their characters.

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This book offers an explanation of Blake's thought and a commentary on his poetry. No effort has been made to deal at all adequately with Blake's biography or with his work as painter and engraver: a study of his relation to English literature is primarily what has been attempted.

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  • Title Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
  • Author Northrop Frye
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Fourth printing
  • Pages 488
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1969-04-21
  • ISBN 9780691012919 / 0691012911
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.3 in (21.59 x 13.72 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Blake, William - Criticism and interpretation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 74005945
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.7
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