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Book SynopsisWilliam Blake called himself a "sublime Artist" and acknowledged his own power to create "the Most Sublime Poetry." Words of Eternity reveals the fundamental importance of the term "sublime" in a defining of Blake's poetic achievement. This first full-length study of Blake and the sublime demonstrates that a sophisticated theory of sublimity permea
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. ix*ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. xi*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii*TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xv*INTRODUCTION, pg. 3*CHAPTER ONE. Blake's Concept of the Sublime, pg. 15*CHAPTER TWO. The Bardic Style: Sublime Extension, pg. 55*CHAPTER THREE. The Iconic Style: Sublime Concentration, pg. 80*CHAPTER FOUR. Narrative Sequences: Modes of Organization, pg. 103*CHAPTER FIVE. The Setting of Nature and the Ruins of Time, pg. 145*CHAPTER SIX. The Setting of the Divided Nations: The Antiquarian Sublime, pg. 179*CHAPTER SEVEN. The Settings of Signs: Language and the Recovery of Origins, pg. 201*EPILOGUE. Blake's Sublime in the Romantic Context, pg. 225*INDEX, pg. 233
