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- catalog abstract "Though Blake's splendid watercolor sequences to Milton's poems, particularly those to Paradise Lost and L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, are visually among his finest achievements as an illustrator, the view persists that iconographically they are essentially magnificent pictorial footnotes, in which Blake plays scribe to Milton's prophet. Yet the differences between the two poets both as radicals and as Christians make it seem likely that Blake would have responded to matters as momentous as the fall and redemption of man on his own terms in his pictorial commentaries. These thought-provoking essays take a fresh look at the internal dynamics of each sequence, stressing "horizontal" progressions and iconographic contrasts as well as "vertical" relationships between text and design, and showing how frequently the key to Blake's meaning depends on recognition of his (often subversive) use of traditional pathos formulae. The conclusion they work toward is that Blake is offering "strong," radically deconstructive readings, in the same impishly irreverent spirit he adopted in the Marriage and in Milton. Particularly intriguing from a feminist perspective is that in the larger Paradise Lost series he appears to be exonerating Eve.".
- catalog contributor b4439780.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "I. Introduction: The Blake Milton Perplex -- II. "Attempting to be More than Man we Become Less": The Comus Designs -- III. "I am God Alone, there is No Other": The Paradise Lost Designs -- IV. Apollo's "Naked Human Form Divine": The Nativity Ode Designs -- V. "A Negation is not a Contrary": The L'Allegro and Il Penseroso Designs -- VI. "Embraces are Cominglings": The Paradise Regained Designs.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index.".
- catalog description "Though Blake's splendid watercolor sequences to Milton's poems, particularly those to Paradise Lost and L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, are visually among his finest achievements as an illustrator, the view persists that iconographically they are essentially magnificent pictorial footnotes, in which Blake plays scribe to Milton's prophet. Yet the differences between the two poets both as radicals and as Christians make it seem likely that Blake would have responded to matters as momentous as the fall and redemption of man on his own terms in his pictorial commentaries. These thought-provoking essays take a fresh look at the internal dynamics of each sequence, stressing "horizontal" progressions and iconographic contrasts as well as "vertical" relationships between text and design, and showing how frequently the key to Blake's meaning depends on recognition of his (often subversive) use of traditional pathos formulae. The conclusion they work toward is that Blake is offering "strong," radically deconstructive readings, in the same impishly irreverent spirit he adopted in the Marriage and in Milton. Particularly intriguing from a feminist perspective is that in the larger Paradise Lost series he appears to be exonerating Eve.".
- catalog extent "xix, 346 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Blake's Milton designs.".
- catalog identifier "093395140X :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Blake's Milton designs.".
- catalog isPartOf "Locust Hill literary studies ; no. 7".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill Press,".
- catalog relation "Blake's Milton designs.".
- catalog subject "759.2 20".
- catalog subject "Blake, William, 1757-1827 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Blake, William, 1757-1827 Themes, motives.".
- catalog subject "English poetry Illustrations.".
- catalog subject "Milton, John, 1608-1674 Illustrations.".
- catalog subject "ND1942.B55 D39 1992".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Introduction: The Blake Milton Perplex -- II. "Attempting to be More than Man we Become Less": The Comus Designs -- III. "I am God Alone, there is No Other": The Paradise Lost Designs -- IV. Apollo's "Naked Human Form Divine": The Nativity Ode Designs -- V. "A Negation is not a Contrary": The L'Allegro and Il Penseroso Designs -- VI. "Embraces are Cominglings": The Paradise Regained Designs.".
- catalog title "Blake's Milton designs : the dynamics of meaning / J.M.Q. Davies.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "Illustrations. fast".
- catalog type "text".