Blake and the CityBucknell University Press, 2006 - 235 páginas 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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... land- scape all too soon . William Blake , on the other hand , has a different way of classifying cities and villages in the same category with rivers and mountains . Blake radically turns our perception of landscape inside - out , so ...
... land- scape all too soon . William Blake , on the other hand , has a different way of classifying cities and villages in the same category with rivers and mountains . Blake radically turns our perception of landscape inside - out , so ...
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... land " is valued not for its own sake , in its virgin state , but as the site of the New Jerusalem : not a paradise given to human beings , but one that they must build for themselves . Strange as it sounds to modern environmentalist ...
... land " is valued not for its own sake , in its virgin state , but as the site of the New Jerusalem : not a paradise given to human beings , but one that they must build for themselves . Strange as it sounds to modern environmentalist ...
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... land- scapes , but at the same time limits the urban landscape to a place " out there . " While the application of the georgic mode to the city ( as I will discuss in chapter 2 ) helps to define that landscape as made rather than found ...
... land- scapes , but at the same time limits the urban landscape to a place " out there . " While the application of the georgic mode to the city ( as I will discuss in chapter 2 ) helps to define that landscape as made rather than found ...
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... land , like country , referring to the nation as well as to rural land ) only to suggest that the contrary terms work in cooperation rather than in opposition : nature needs imagination , and the country needs the city . The conjunction ...
... land , like country , referring to the nation as well as to rural land ) only to suggest that the contrary terms work in cooperation rather than in opposition : nature needs imagination , and the country needs the city . The conjunction ...
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... land . " 52 Nonetheless , this expansion represented freedom in that it followed the imaginations of individual lords , architects , and investors , rather than a master plan . The London squares emphasized dwelling , and their only ...
... land . " 52 Nonetheless , this expansion represented freedom in that it followed the imaginations of individual lords , architects , and investors , rather than a master plan . The London squares emphasized dwelling , and their only ...
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38 | |
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 |
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Página 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.
Página 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...