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William Blake on Self and Soul
It has been clear from the beginning that William Blake was both a political radical and a radical psychologist, and in William Blake on Self and Soul Laura Quinney uses her sensitive, surprising readings of the poet to reveal his innovative ideas about the experience of subjectivity.
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Jack Gilbert: A House on Fire in Sunlight
Quinney discusses the life and work of Jack Gilbert, a writer of great deliberation and a poet of midlife and old age. She focuses on the work of Gilbert's poetic maturity, displayed in his last two volumes, Refusing Heaven and The Great Fires. Quinney discloses that Gilbert is in some respects an ideal writer to live into old age and write about it because he has always resolutely exploited his own experience. She rationalizes that Gilbert's relation to his own life is that of a scholar's to a difficult foreign language that requires vigilance to translate.
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Swerving Neo-Platonists
[...]he evidently develops power-hunger as a reaction to his sense of impotence. [...]by an intimate conversion to this partial essence, and being shaken off, as it were, from total and universal natures, it thus degenerates from the whole, and governs particulars with anxiety and fatigue; assiduously cultivating externals, and becoming not only present with body, but profoundly entering its dark abodes. Ironically, Blake's mission remained unknown, while Wordsworth's spurious cures - his \"recompenses\" and \"benedictions\" - were taken literally and entered the culture through his Arnoldian reception. According to Jonas, it is an essential Gnostic contribution to claim that the deepest threat to the soul comes not from the distractions of matter but from the development of a false self.
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Escape from Repetition
In his treatise ‘There Is No Natural Religion,’ Blake contemns Lockean empiricism for providing a reductive account of subjective experience. Empiricism slights, or even represses, the imaginative component of perception - what Blake calls ‘the Poetic or Prophetic character’ or, more plainly, ‘Inspiration and Revelation.’ According to empiricism, we have for our originary stimulus only the elements of material reality: the pitiful circle of things, the routines of clock time and nature. If we truly are confined to natural reality, then our subjective experience must be increasingly homogeneous. Blake concludes, ‘If it were not for the Poetic or Prophetic character
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