Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake

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University of Toronto Press, 2004 M01 1 - 516 páginas

Published in 1947, Fearful Symmetry was Northrop Frye's first book and the product of over a decade of intense labour. Drawing readers into the imaginative world of William Blake, Frye succeeded in making Blake's voice and vision intelligible to the wider public. Distinguished by its range of reference, elegance of expression, comprehensiveness of coverage, coherence of argument, and sympathy to its subject, Fearful Symmetry was immediately recognized as a landmark of Blake criticism. Fifty years later, it is still recognized as having ensured the acceptance of Blake as a canonical poet by permanently dispelling the widespread notion that he was the mad creator of an incomprehensible private symbolism.

For this new edition, the text has been revised and corrected in accordance with the principles of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series. Frye's original annotation has been supplemented with references to currently standard editions of Blake and others, and many new notes have been provided, identifying quotations, allusions, and cultural references. An introduction by Ian Singer provides biographical and critical context for the book, an overview of its contents, and an account of its reception.

Dentro del libro

Contenido

Illustrations
vii
Preface to the 1969 Edition
5
The Rising
37
Beyond Good and Evil
61
The Final Synthesis
305
The Burden of the Valley of Vision
392
Preface to the Beacon Press Edition
405
Notes
411
Emendations
479
Derechos de autor

Términos y frases comunes

Acerca del autor (2004)

The late Northrop Frye was a professor in the Department of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto. Nicholas Halmi is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Washington.

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