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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.7
EAN: 9780874514360
ISBN: 0874514363
Label: Brown
Manufacturer: Brown
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 573
Publication Date: 1988-06-15
Publisher: Brown
Studio: Brown

An indispensable guide to Blake's ideas and symbols is once again available in paper, with a new foreword and annotated bibliography

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Review Summary: An essential reference work for Blake scholarship.
Review: Prophet? Madman? Or philosopher? The mythological characters in William Blake's prophetic poetry present a conundrum for the reader who confronts these characters with the traditional literary expectations of a symbolic reading. Indeed, the vanguard of contemporary criticism would argue that the very complexity of Blake's mythology precludes an all inclusive schemata.

Yet S. Foster Damon's A BLAKE DICTIONARY offers compelling testament that there was methodology in Blake's madness. In addition to providing a detailed enunciation of virtually every character in Blake's poetry, Damon further offers an exposition of the major themes and symbols which Blake repeatedly returned to in his longer prophetic works. Along with both Northrop Frye's FEARFUL SYMMETRY and David Erdman's PROPHET AGAINST EMPIRE, Damon's meticulously cross-referenced dictionary is an essential reference work for anyone who dares delve into Blake's complex mythology.

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