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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Page 39
... existence of any idea consists in being perceived . . . nor is it possi- ble they should have any existence , out of the minds of thinking things which perceive them . " 7 Denying the reality of external matter , Berkeley devoted most ...
... existence of any idea consists in being perceived . . . nor is it possi- ble they should have any existence , out of the minds of thinking things which perceive them . " 7 Denying the reality of external matter , Berkeley devoted most ...
Page 77
... existence . While the first - person pronoun is the grammatical subject of each of the first six lines , this is not the psychological I , but the transcendental ego ( " I loved Theotormon , " iii : 1 , E 45 ) , experiencing an ontic ...
... existence . While the first - person pronoun is the grammatical subject of each of the first six lines , this is not the psychological I , but the transcendental ego ( " I loved Theotormon , " iii : 1 , E 45 ) , experiencing an ontic ...
Page 161
... existence to " meer possibilities . " Counter- acting centuries of progressive constriction , Blake attempts to reconnect “ every little act , / Word , work & wish , that has existed , " to rebuild Jerusalem , the universal vision that ...
... existence to " meer possibilities . " Counter- acting centuries of progressive constriction , Blake attempts to reconnect “ every little act , / Word , work & wish , that has existed , " to rebuild Jerusalem , the universal vision that ...
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