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Words of Eternity: Blake and the Poetics of the Sublime
By (Author) Vincent Arthur De Luca
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
821.7
Hardback
256
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
510g
William Blake called himself a "sublime Artist" and acknowledged his own power to create "the Most Sublime Poetry." Words of Eternity reveals the fundamental importance of the term "sublime" in a defining of Blake's poetic achievement. This first full-length study of Blake and the sublime demonstrates that a sophisticated theory of sublimity permea