Blake's apocalypse : a study in poetic argument /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloom, Harold
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1963.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. The Minor Poems. Poetical Sketches: The Young Blake
  • Early Tracts: Natural Religion and Imagination
  • Trial: The Voice in the Wilderness
  • The Pastoral Image: Songs of Innocence; The Book of Thel
  • Revolution and Prophecy: The French Revolution; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; A Song of Liberty
  • Torments of Love and Jealousy: The Notebook Poems; Visions of the Daughters of Albion
  • The Prophecy of Orc: America, A Prophecy; Songs of Experience; Europe, A Prophecy; The Song of Los
  • Eternal Recurrence: The Orc Cycle: The Book of Urizen; The Book of Ahania; The Book of Los
  • II. The Major Poems. The First Epic: Vala, or The Four Zoas, The Completed Myth; Creation Fall: Night I, Fall of Tharmas, Night II, Fall of Luvah, Night III, Fall of Urizen
  • Struggles of Contraries: Night IV, The Mission of Los; Night V, The Orc Cycle Begins; Night VI, The Dens of Urizen
  • Threshold of Recovery: Night VII, First Version, Crisis; Night VII, Later Version, Culmination; Night VIII, The Ashes of Mystery; Night IX, The Last Judgment
  • Later Poems from the Notebook and the Pickering Manuscript: 'My Spectre around me night & day'; The Golden Net; The Mental Traveller; The Crystal Cabinet; Auguries of Innocence
  • Prelude to Apocalypse: Milton: Book I, Milton's Descent; Book II, Milton's Purgation
  • Blake's Epic: Jerusalem: Chapter I, Of the Sleep of Albion; Chapter II, The Terrible Separation; Chapter III, The Shadowy Female's Triumph; Chapter IV, Los-Blake-Jesus
  • Conclusion: The Old Blake.