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Spiritual History - A Reading of William Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas (Hardcover)
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Spiritual History - A Reading of William Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas (Hardcover)
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William Blake's The Four Zoas is one of the most challenging poems
in the English language, and one of the most profound. It is also
one of the least read of the major poetic narratives of the
Romantic period. Spiritual History presents a much-needed
introduction to the poem, although it will also be of great
interest to those already familiar with it. This is the first
full-length study to examine in detail Blake's numerous manuscript
revisions of the poem. It offers a staged reading, one that moves,
as Blake himself moved, from simpler to more complex forms of
writing. Andrew Lincoln reads the poem in the light of two
competing views of history: the biblical, which places history
within the framework of Fall and Judgement, and that of the
Enlightenment, which sees history as progress from primitive life
to civil order. In so doing, he offers an account of the narrative
that is more coherent - and accessible - than much previous
criticism of the work, and Blake's much misunderstood poem emerges
as the most extraordinary product of the eighteenth-century
tradition of philosophical history.
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