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Article: Peter Otto. Blake's Critique of Transcendence: Love, Jealousy, and the Sublime in The Four Zoas.(Book Review)
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- Studies in Romanticism
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- September 22, 2004
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Peter Otto. Blake's Critique of Transcendence: Love, Jealousy, and the Sublime in The Four Zoas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii + 365, illus. $85.00.
About 1794, the bookseller Richard Edwards commissioned William Blake to make designs for an edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts. Blake worked on this until W97, producing 537 watercolor drawings. Edwards published the first part of the text with forty-three Blake engravings in 1797. It was a commercial failure. Perhaps in response, and over the following years, Blake began to create the first of his great visionary epics, The Four Zoas.
In The Four Zoas, Blake's whole person, Albion, ...
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... ... second, how his manuscript epic The Four Zoas uses the figure of synecdoche to confound ... short passage at the beginning of The Four Zoas that extends the Marriage's twofold conception ... these ideas as they play out in The Four Zoas narrative, about the deathly disintegration ...
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