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Blake, Kierkegaard & the Spect

Blake, Kierkegaard & the Spect

Clark, Lorraine

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521395097
ISBN13: 9780521395090
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Nov 7 1991
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This study traces affinities between the late prophetic poems of William Blake and the work of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. Both feature concepts (the Spectre fought by Blake's poet-prophet Los, and Kierkegaard's idea of dread) embodying a spirit of philosophical negation, skepticism, and dialectic which the writers sought to resist. Lorraine Clark uses Kierkegaard's philosophy to illuminate Blake's prophecies, showing that both offer the basis for a profound critique of romanticism, while themselves partaking of some of the ideals and tensions central to our understanding of the romantic movement.

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