Readership: Scholars, students, and readers of Blake, Romanticism, the sublime, history of sexuality, religion
Peter Otto, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Melbourne
"A useful teaching tool ... it does allow for clarity, something to be viewed as premium in these notoriously difficult poems and Blake's twists and turns of perspective are rendered more manageable as a result ... one actually leaves Blake's Critique of Transcendence with a much stronger sense of what the poem is about." - Literature & Theology
"A central text for those studying the poem in the foreseeable future ... excellent index and useful bibliography ... excellent scholarship." - Literature & Theology
List of Plates Key to References Abbreviations Introduction The Rhetoric of Transcendence1: Blake, Blake criticism and the sublime 2: Reason's heaven and the body's hell Falling into a World of Los(s)3: The birth of Los(s) from Tharmas 4: Urizen's world of Los(s) 5: A cacophony of voices 6: Building a Swedenborgian heaven Building the Fallen World7: The elaboration of Los(s) Reason's Struggle against the Flesh8: Urizen explores his dens 9: Flesh and spirit 10: A sensitive body The End and the Beginning of History11: Death of the body / liberation of the spirit 12: The Last Judgment Bibliography Index
