Fearful Symmetry:
A Study of William Blake
Northrop Frye

Paper | 1969 | $26.95 / £18.95
472 pp.

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Review:

"A magnificent, extraordinary book. . . . Several great poets have written of Blake, but this book is the first to show the full magnitude of Blake's mind."--The Spectator

Table of Contents:

PART ONE - THE ARGUMENT
1. The Case against Locke 3
2. The Rising God 30
3. Beyond Good and Evil 55
4. A Literalist of the Imagination 85
5. The Word Within the Word 108
PART TWO - THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYMBOLISM
6. Tradition and Experiment 147
7. The Theif of Fire 187
8. The Refiner in Fire 227
9. The Nightmare with Her Ninefold 269
PART THREE - THE FINAL SYNTHESIS
10. Comus agonists 313
11. The City of God 356
12. The Burden of the Valley of Vision 404
GENERAL NOTE: BLAKE'S MYSTICISM 431
NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS 433
NOTES TO THE TEST 435
INDEX 451

Another Princeton book by Northrop Frye:

• Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays.

Subject Areas:

• Mind, Body, Spirit
• British Literature
• Religion

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