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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
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