"Strange Prophecies Anew": Rereading Apocalypse in Blake, H.D., and Ginsberg

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2000 - 209 síđur
This book revives questions of religious and political authority in poetic prophecy. It argues that modern prophecy operates within a dynamic of continuity and estrangement that combines immanent and transcendent modes of representation, creating a poetry that revises the very tradition that authorizes it.

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Blurring the Line of Vision Estrangement and the Prophetic Tradition
13
The Moment Satan Cannot Find Blakes Transferential Language of Vision in Milton
45
The Measure of Deplorable Gaps in Time A Language for Visionary History in Trilogy
83
Sanity a Trick of Agreement Madness and Doubt in Ginsbergs Prophetic Poetry
125
Conclusion Apocalypse Without End
173
Notes
183
Bibliography
197
Index
205
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Síđa 105 - And the city lieth four-square and the length is as large as the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs ; the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Síđa 67 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Síđa 46 - When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat like a guinea?" "O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying, 'Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty".
Síđa 66 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold; Where on the' ./Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City' or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Síđa 58 - Every Time less than a pulsation of the artery Is equal in its period & value to Six Thousand Years, 45.
Síđa 32 - The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spake to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.
Síđa 79 - Around the Starry Eight; with one accord the Starry Eight became One Man, Jesus the Saviour, wonderful ! round his limbs The Clouds of Ololon folded as a Garment dipped in blood...
Síđa 99 - Which of you convinceth me of sin ? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God's words : ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
Síđa 70 - There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find. Nor can his Watch Fiends find it; but the Industrious find This Moment & it multiply, & when it once is found It renovates every Moment of the Day if rightly placed.
Síđa 16 - Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

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