Northrop Frye

Fearful Symmetry (eBook, ePUB)

A Study of William Blake

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The landmark book that situates Blake's poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers Since it was first published, Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry has established itself as the defining commentary on the poetic vision of William Blake. Frye gives a complete solution to the riddles of Blake's longer poems-the so-called "Prophecies"-and demonstrates how Blake's works form a coherent mythical pattern that broadens our conception of literature. He explains how Blake arrived at a theory of knowledge that was also, for him, a theory of religion, life, and of art, and how this rigorously defined system of ideas found expression in the complicated but consistent symbolism of his poetry. With an incisive foreword by scholar and literary critic Nicholas Halmi, this Princeton Classics edition shows how Blake reflects the literary and the intellectual atmosphere of his time while holding renewed meaning for us today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House South Africa
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780691278117
• Artikelnr.: 73614659

Autorenporträt

Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was University Professor at the University of Toronto, where he was also professor of English at Victoria College. His books include Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton). Nicholas Halmi is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Oxford and the Margaret Candfield Tutorial Fellow in English at University College.

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE - THE ARGUMENT
1. The Case against Locke 3
2. The Rising God 30
3. Beyond Good and Evil 55
4. A Literalist of the Imagination 85
5. The Word Within the Word 108
PART TWO - THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYMBOLISM
6. Tradition and Experiment 147
7. The Theif of Fire 187
8. The Refiner in Fire 227
9. The Nightmare with Her Ninefold 269
PART THREE - THE FINAL SYNTHESIS
10. Comus agonists 313
11. The City of God 356
12. The Burden of the Valley of Vision 404
GENERAL NOTE: BLAKE'S MYSTICISM 431
NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS 433
NOTES TO THE TEST 435
INDEX 451

Rezensionen

A magnificent, extraordinary book. . . . Several great poets have written of Blake, but this book is the first to show the full magnitude of Blake's mind.