Thesis
The origins, development and meaning of the figure Urizen in the poetry, prophecies and graphic art of William Blake
- Abstract:
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The thesis examines Urizen in relation to Blake's intellectual, religious and artistic background.
The ideas of jealousy, possessiveness and the cruelties of Kings and Priests are already present in early Blake. These various kinds of restriction contribute to the notion of the 'bounded', the sources of which are traced to empirical philosophy, though it has a very wide reference in Blake. It is central to the meaning of Urizen, whose name probably derives from a Greek verb meaning ...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 1980
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Source identifiers:
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602324963
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- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
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- Local pid:
- td:602324963
- Deposit date:
- 2013-10-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Larrissy, Edward T.
- Copyright date:
- 1980
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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