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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... whole work he transforms them to elements of a general con- dition . The simplifying contrast between country and city is then de- cisively transcended . " 16 The city for Blake is not the absence or the negation of nature , but rather ...
... whole work he transforms them to elements of a general con- dition . The simplifying contrast between country and city is then de- cisively transcended . " 16 The city for Blake is not the absence or the negation of nature , but rather ...
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... whole as complete as the courtyard of a con- vent , " differs from the Baroque square , which tended to be orga- nized in a " grand crescendo " culminating in a monument.51 To some , this comparison worked to London's disfavor : the ...
... whole as complete as the courtyard of a con- vent , " differs from the Baroque square , which tended to be orga- nized in a " grand crescendo " culminating in a monument.51 To some , this comparison worked to London's disfavor : the ...
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... whole machine . " 85 Blake did not have to look far for the images that filled his works of this period , beginning with the Songs of Experience . One final landmark of South London has particularly tantalized Blake scholars : the steam ...
... whole machine . " 85 Blake did not have to look far for the images that filled his works of this period , beginning with the Songs of Experience . One final landmark of South London has particularly tantalized Blake scholars : the steam ...
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... whole city as his abode , and consequently he was able to appreciate positive changes that had occurred during his absence : " The shops in Lon- don improve ; everything is elegant , clean , and neat ; the streets are widened where they ...
... whole city as his abode , and consequently he was able to appreciate positive changes that had occurred during his absence : " The shops in Lon- don improve ; everything is elegant , clean , and neat ; the streets are widened where they ...
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... whole ; he sees iso- lated parts and generalizes from them to the whole , in an attempt to make his environment " legible . " 25 Samuel Johnson considered the city's essence to rest in its minute localities : " Sir , if you wish to have ...
... whole ; he sees iso- lated parts and generalizes from them to the whole , in an attempt to make his environment " legible . " 25 Samuel Johnson considered the city's essence to rest in its minute localities : " Sir , if you wish to have ...
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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 |
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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...