Glorious Incomprehensible: The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic LanguageBucknell University Press, 2001 - 202 pages Traces the evolution of hebraic etymologies and mystical grammars as indicators of a profound shift in Blake's subjective consciousness from the earliest prose tracts, worked on before 1790, to the last years of his life, when he was still completing 'Jerusalem'. |
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... archetypal basis through which the British have , until today , established their intentional relationship with their world . In this way , throughout the religious and political up- heavals of the intervening centuries , the Protes ...
... archetypal basis through which the British have , until today , established their intentional relationship with their world . In this way , throughout the religious and political up- heavals of the intervening centuries , the Protes ...
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... archetypal fe- male - passive , giving , and associated with sex . The speaker of The Argument , presumably Oothoon , states that she " hid in Leutha's vale ! " and “ plucked Leutha's flower " ( iii : 4–5 , E 45 ) , and the Daughters of ...
... archetypal fe- male - passive , giving , and associated with sex . The speaker of The Argument , presumably Oothoon , states that she " hid in Leutha's vale ! " and “ plucked Leutha's flower " ( iii : 4–5 , E 45 ) , and the Daughters of ...
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... archetypal baptismal font that purifies souls so that they can perceive the light re- flected in Golgonooza . Functioning like biblical Hebrew - and like Blake's interpretation of the name Albion — the literal meanings of Golgonooza and ...
... archetypal baptismal font that purifies souls so that they can perceive the light re- flected in Golgonooza . Functioning like biblical Hebrew - and like Blake's interpretation of the name Albion — the literal meanings of Golgonooza and ...
Contents
Illustrations | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 15 |
Blakes Problem with Language | 21 |
Copyright | |
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Adam Ahania allegory Angel archetypal associated attempt Beulah Blake seems Blake's language Book of Los Book of Thel Book of Urizen Bromion Cambridge Christian context contraries conventional Copy Daughters of Albion David death derived Divine empirical English Enitharmon Essay Essick Eternity existence experience Four Zoas Fuzon glosses grammar guage Heaven and Hell hebraic etymologies Hebrew human intentional relationship interpreted Jerusalem Jewish Jews Kabbalah Kabbalism kabbalistic Katz letter Leutha linguistic literal London Luvah major prophecies Marriage of Heaven means Milton mode of thought Mysticism and Language myth negation noun Ololon Oothoon original Oxford Palamabron Parkhurst Philosophical plate poem Poetic predicated Princeton Prophet Rare Book Rational Soul Religion reprint sciousness selfhood sense signify Song Song of Los spiritual Studies subjective consciousness symbol Tharmas Thel's Theotormon thou tion tional Tiriel Tirzah trans transcend transformed University Press Urthona Vala vision visionary vols William Blake words York