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Selfhood and Redemption in Blake's Songs
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Selfhood and Redemption in Blake's Songs Hardback - 1987

by Harold Pagliaro

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This reading of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience provides a more immediate sense of Blake's psychology of redemption and a more penetrating treatment of the role of death and sexuality in the Songs than is available in any other scholarly work. Pagliaro shows that the Songs not only anticipate the redemption generally associated with the later poems, but also make it available in such psychological detail as to give new meaning to Selfhood, Self-examination, and Self-annihilation, and to encourage the reader to participate in the redemptive process.

This is the first book to stress the role death plays in the Songs, and the first to detail the changing psychological responses of individual characters as an unconscious function of bodily mortality. The discussion here of the ways in which sexuality and mortality interact in Blake's poetry is immediately persuasive.

Pagliaro shows that Blake understands how the rationalizing mind of the natural man is formed and how it operates, and that he understands what it takes for such a mind to rid itself of error. Blake is unique among the English romantics in this regard.

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  • Title Selfhood and Redemption in Blake's Songs
  • Author Harold Pagliaro
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penn State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1987-09
  • ISBN 9780271006031 / 027100603X
  • Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.44 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.12 cm)
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Blake, William, Self in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 86043162
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.7

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