Description: Words of Eternity : Blake and the Poetics of the Sublime, Hardcover by De Luca, Vincent Arthur, ISBN 0691635579, ISBN-13 9780691635576, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
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 Blakes poetic achievement. This first full-length study of Blake and the sublime demonstrates that a sophisticated theory of sublimity permeates his writings, serving him as a personal poetics, a framework in which the difficulties and unusual strategies of the works find their rationale. Vincent De Luca combines historically grounded source study with insights from modern critical theories of textuality to identify Blakes two opposing conceptions of sublimity--a sublime of obscurity, terror, and material power and one of determinate, concentrated intellectual design. De Luca examines the interplay between these two modes from differing perspectives--theoretical, stylistic, and thematic. As the perspectives widen, they embrace many of the speculative systems of Blakes time and reveal these systems as various displaced modalities of an underlying sublime discourse. "Words of Eternity is one of the dozen or so most important books ever written about Blakes poetry. De Luca provides a wealth of new insights on every page."--Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside "With the context that this book supplies, we take a quantum leap in the sense we can make of Blakes project. De Luca opens our eyes to a Blake, and a sublime, that will never again be the same for us."--Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia
Originally published in 1991.
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Book Title: Words of Eternity : Blake and the Poetics of the Sublime
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Words of Eternity : Blake and the Poetics of the Sublime
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Poetry, Aesthetics, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Author: Vincent Arthur De Luca
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 6.7 in
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Format: Hardcover
