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The Marriage moves , like Blake's great epics — and indeed his prophetic lyric “ The Tyger ” —toward an apocalyptic conclusion , but in the last part there sounds a slightly less positive note , in the shift back to ironic point of view ...
The Marriage moves , like Blake's great epics — and indeed his prophetic lyric “ The Tyger ” —toward an apocalyptic conclusion , but in the last part there sounds a slightly less positive note , in the shift back to ironic point of view ...
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To pounce on Blake's poems and pictures , and to see in these only the works of a great creative artist is to miss half his value . For Blake's glory and Blake's significance to our age is just this , that religion and art were ...
To pounce on Blake's poems and pictures , and to see in these only the works of a great creative artist is to miss half his value . For Blake's glory and Blake's significance to our age is just this , that religion and art were ...
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Blake's great originality lies rather in his unusual devices for adapting well - known myths and commonly accepted ... In his violent reaction against the mechanistic cosmological concepts of the eighteenth century , Blake went back to ...
Blake's great originality lies rather in his unusual devices for adapting well - known myths and commonly accepted ... In his violent reaction against the mechanistic cosmological concepts of the eighteenth century , Blake went back to ...
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