Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation

250 Pages·2010·1.92 MB·English

by  John H. Jones

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BLAKE ON LANGUAGE, POWER, AND SELF-ANNIHILATION
Copyright © John H. Jones, 2010.
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Dedicated to my parents, H. Boyd Jones and
Sandra B. Jones, and to my wife, Alison Brooks Jones
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And the Divine voice came from the Furnaces, as multitudes without
Number! the voices of the innumerable multitudes of Eternity.
—William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
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Contents
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