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Article: William Blake's Comic Vision.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2005
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William Blake's Comic Vision. By NICK RAWLINSON. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003 xiii + 292 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-74565-5.
It is true of Blake, as of Dostoevsky, that his intensity and scale of vision occlude a salient fact: that he is a hugely funny writer. In Europe, Isaac Newton (of all people) seizes and blows the trumpet of secular apocalypse, whereupon the angelic hosts (newly endowed with gravitational mass?) fall from the sky From Songs of Experience: 'My Pretty Bose Tree' is marital sitcom farce; in 'The Fly' we hear the cosmic bitterness of a Gloucester as filtered through the mentality of a member of the Drones Club ...
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