Constructive Vision and Visionary Deconstruction: Los, Eternity, and the Productions of Time in the Later Poetry of William Blake

by Peter Otto

Focusing on the tension in Blake's poetry between doubt and belief, this book offers a new account of the way Blake's major prophecies work and of the strategies they employ. Offering a radically new reading of Milton and Jerusalem, Otto argues that the autonomous, world-forming imagination is subject to visionary deconstruction. He demonstrates that rather than subordinating existence to perception, the poems attempt to induce their readers to action...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198117515
• ISBN13: 9780198117513
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.0"