Blakes Critique of Transcendence_Love, Jealousy, and the Sublime in The Four Zoas
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Although Milton’s ‘crowd of great and confused images’ (a tower, an archangel, the sun rising through mists or in an eclipse, the ruin of monarchs) cannot be resolved into a unified whole, we gain an inkling of the ruined Satan’s still gigantic form and colossal power. Similarly, one can argue that the manifold voices and narratives of The Four Zoas evoke the vast ruin (human history) that is the fallen body of Albion (humanity).10 — location: 59
For De Luca, the ‘more palpably the revisions interrupt or intrude, the more they endorse the possibility of fresh vision’. Ault calls the poem ‘an inert nest of paradoxes, mistakes, and non sequiturs’; but this ‘nest’, if it does not drive readers away, rouses their faculties to act. — location: 75