------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain blake-d Digest Volume 1996 : Issue 27 Today's Topics: Re: Blake's tombstone Blake sighting Re: query Re: Blake and other Romantics Re: Blake's tombstone Re: unsubscribing Re: unsubscribing Free For All RE: "pre-existence" Re: DUMAIN & SATAN / BLAKE & MARX / THEORY & PRACTICE Re: Byron & Shelley & Blake maturity Re: unsubscribing McGann on Blake Re: Byron & Shelley & Blake Re: Walthall Re: Other Romantics Re: Walthall Re: Blake's tombstone Re: McGann on Blake DUMAIN & SATAN & TOM & TOM & .... RE: Byron & Shelley & Blake Dumain, Blake, Marx Re: Cockney? Re: Free For All: Jerusalem ch. 2 Dumain, Blake, Marx Re[2]: Byron & Shelley & Blake Intro RE: Free For All: Jerusalem ch. 2 BLAKE -- a question Re: Blake's tombstone ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 13:03:01 -0600 (CST) From: "DR. JOSIE MCQUAIL" To: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: Blake's tombstone Message-Id: <01I32F5NLSW295ODXG@tntech.edu> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Blake does have a marker at Westminster Abbey, though. If I remember, it says Poet, Mystic, Artist gives his name and relevant dates (1757-1827). An unrelated rant: could people please go easy on the excerpt key? Is it really necessary to excerpt 5 pages in your reply to someone? I am at the point where I hate to read mail from the Blake online group (which arrives in almost overwhelming number already) because there is so much to wade through of extractions and extraneous material. Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 14:07:24 -0500 (EST) From: Jonathan J Winsor To: blake@albion.com Subject: Blake sighting Message-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A book has recently been published on children's book author Maurice Sendak called _Angels and Wild Things: The Archetypical Poetics of Maurice Sendak_ (by John Cech, c.1995, PA State U. Press.) Has anyone seen it? It's quite an interesting book and it's filled with references to Blake. Sendak is apparently quite forthcoming about his influences-- he said after the publication of _Where the Wild Things Are_ that "Blake was _the_ influence" on him as an artist. Another Sendak quote: "Over the years I've been feeding myself artistic culture things-- Blake, the English illustrators, Melville-- but those crappy toys and those tinsel movies are much more directly involved in my life than certainly William Blake ever was, although Blake really is important, my cornerstone..." _Angels and Wild Things_ looks pretty good. I'd sink the money into buying it if I wasn't a penniless graduate student. Cech's discussion seems good, true to Sendak's spirit, and quite sophisticated. One thing I had no idea about was the extent to which Sendak was controversial when he first came out, which Cech says is often the case with innovators in children's literature. Incidentally, Cech's book has lots of full color, full size illustrations from all of Sendak's books so you don't have to raid your kid's bookshelves to look them over. Sendak, by the way, has recently illustrated an edition of Herman Melville's strange novel _Pierre_ (sorry, I don't have the publishing info handy.) Sendak's illustrations to _Pierre_ are obviously Blake inspired-- a lot like Blake's _Innocence and Experience_ illustrations, with dancing figures wearing bright, "painted on" clothes. Anyway, I thought this subject might provide an interesting alternative to the dialectical materialism discussion. Cheers, --Jon Winsor. jjwinsor@christa.unh.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 14:22:10 -0500 (EST) From: Nelson Hilton To: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: query Message-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sounds like he's thinking of the April 25 1803 letter to Butts and how it could apply to his own effort-- "I have written this Poem from immediate Dictation twelve or sometimes twenty or thiry lines at a time without Premeditation & even against my Will. the Time it has taken in writing was thus renderd Non Existent." (E [1982] 728-29) Nelson Hilton -=- English -=- University of Georgia -=- Athens Was ist Los? "Net of Urizen" or "Jerusalem the Web"? http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~wblake ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 15:09:36 -0500 From: "Jamison Ashley Oughton" To: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: Blake and other Romantics Message-Id: <9604021509.ZM25661@eos.ncsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Apr 1, 3:41pm, Jamison Ashley Oughton wrote: > Subject: Re: Changing subscriptions > Does anyone know what William Blake thought of Percy Shelley or Lord Byron? I > know he knew of Byron, but did he know about Shelley? Please answer this! > >-- End of excerpt from Jamison Ashley Oughton ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 14:13:43 -0600 From: jmichael@seraph1.sewanee.edu (J. Michael) To: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: Blake's tombstone Message-Id: <9604022018.AA13763@uu6.psi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Mary Lynn is quite right that Blake's grave is unmarked. There is, however, a tombstone for him on one of the main walks in Bunhill Fields (dwarfed by the much larger memorial to Defoe right beside it). I took some snapshots of the place last summer and can refer to them if the person who asked the question is interested. (I'll even send a copy if you'd like--I'm not sure how well the writing shows up, since they're not here at the office). Unfortunately, a short distance in the background is the undignified sign reading "Unisex Toilet"--an irony that I think Blake would have smiled at. We also had a creepy encounter with a homeless man there who I suspect may have been the reincarnation of Blake, but that's another story . . . . Jennifer Michael jmichael@seraph1.sewanee.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 96 13:39:10 -0800 From: Seth T. Ross To: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: unsubscribing Message-Id: <9604022139.AA08063@albion.com> Content-Type: text/plain =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- BLAKE ONLINE ADMINISTRIVIA To leave Blake Online, send an email message to blake-request@albion.com with the word "unsubscribe" in the SUBJECT field (putting it in the body of the message may or may not work), like so: TO: blake-request@albion.com SUBJECT: unsubscribe Your address will be automatically unsubscribed. Occasionally, the automatic unsubscription mechanism fails. In that case, please DON'T send the request to the entire list distribution at the address blake@albion.com. Please use the address blake-request@albion.com for all administrative queries. Virtually yours, Seth Ross Albion sysadmin -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 15:45:39 -0600 (CST) From: HXNEWSAM@ualr.edu To: blake@albion.com Subject: Free For All Message-Id: <960402154539.202a333f@ualr.edu> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT I' m now going to make a humble request for suggestions. First thanks for all the great comments on pre-existence. Now, I would like to ask for all your opinions on the second chapter of Jerusalem. I am up on April 7 to present Chapter two in my Independent Study class. In your opinions what do you think are the most important points that need to made to a group of undergrads reading it for the first time. Certain members of the list are not allowed to reply because of their involvement, or direction of the class (you know who you are. No fair getting to have your say twice.) Thanks, I'll be waiting anxiously, Heather ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 15:32:45 -0600 (CST) From: HXNEWSAM@ualr.edu To: blake@albion.com Subject: RE: "pre-existence" Message-Id: <960402153245.202a333f@ualr.edu> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Thakn You very much for the response, I'll look at that. Thanks, Heather ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 00:26:32 -0600 From: "Jeffrey Skoblow" To: blake@albion.com, blake@albion.com Subject: Re: DUMAIN & SATAN / BLAKE & MARX / THEORY & PRACTICE Message-Id: <9604022227.AA19258@daisy.ac.siue.edu> There's more McGann on Blake in his "Social Values and Poetic Acts" and a chapter in "Towards a Literature of Knowledge" is called "William Blake Illuminates the Truth"-- this latter deals with "Milton" and with the graphic production of "Jerusalem". --Jeffrey Skoblow > Date: Tue, 02 Apr 96 08:56:00 EST > From: Kevin Lewis > Subject: Re: DUMAIN & SATAN / BLAKE & MARX / THEORY & PRACTICE > To: blake@albion.com > Reply-to: blake@albion.com > Ralph, > > You are an excited guy! > > If you like McGann, I suggest you read his essay in that volume edited > by Curran and Wittreich in the seventies--is it titled something like > _The Allegorical Sublime_? McGann as a teacher at Chicago presided over > my earliest serious endeavors with Blake, and I cherish respect for him: > he continues to grow in *ideas*. May we all. > > Kevin > > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 18:43:21 -0500 From: WaHu@aol.com To: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: Byron & Shelley & Blake Message-Id: <960402184319_460896496@emout10.mail.aol.com> Blake did not know Shelley, but he knew Mary Shelley's Mother & Father. He didn't know Byron either. Byron was, next to Napoleon, the most famous human being of his generation. Michael Jackson or Mel Gibson type famous. As an English Lord, his personal wealth was also in line with that of a modern Entertainment Superstar. It would have been quite unusual if Byron had known a Cockney shop keeper like William Blake. Hugh Walthall wahu@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Apr 96 17:46:17 CST From: Mark Trevor Smith To: blake@albion.com Subject: maturity Message-Id: <9604022351.AA09212@uu6.psi.com> I hereby pronounce this list mature. If I am not mistaken, we have received our first complaint that the volume of mail is too heavy. My memory recalls only thin days from Blake Online until recently and no complaints earlier about too much to read. "Enough or too much!" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 19:05:36 -0500 From: Jan paul Miller To: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: unsubscribing Message-Id: <3161C0D0.6151@charm.net> Content-Length: 472 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit unsubscribe Jan paul Miller -- Jan paul Miller * Department of English, Foreign Languages, and Philosophy Montgomery College * 220 Pavilion of Fine Arts * Takoma Park, MD 20912 Office: 301-650-1380 * Secretary: 301-650-1378 * Fax: 301-650-1550 Home: 603 Sharp Street South * Baltimore, MD 21230-3621 Home Voicemail: 410-962-8600 * Home Fax: 410-837-1250 email: < jpmiller@charm.net> * WWW Home Page: http://www.charm.net/~jpmiller ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 19:55:16 -0500 From: nathan miserocchi To: blake@albion.com Subject: McGann on Blake Message-Id: <9604030055.AA03258@abacus.bates.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" While not by McGann, there is an interesting collection of essays entitled _Historicizing Blake_ (New York: St.Martin's Press, 1994) that, as a collective work, has great affinity to McGann's work, as the title itself informs and the editors, Steve Clark and David Worrall, point out in their intro. -- Nathan Miserocchi nmiseroc@abacus.bates.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:14:37 -0500 From: "Jamison Ashley Oughton" To: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: Byron & Shelley & Blake Message-Id: <9604022114.ZM11815@eos.ncsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I know that Byron did not personally know Blake, but did he know of his work as Wordsworth, Lamb, and Southey knew of his work? Since Byron was so famous, did BLake know of his poetry? What did Blake think about it? Isn't it strange that Blake was friends with Godwin and Mary Wollenscraft, and that Percy Shelley certainly spent hours discussing philosophy and literature with Godwin, and yet Blake did not come up? What about Keats and Blake? Jamison Oughton ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:17:46 -0500 From: "Jamison Ashley Oughton" To: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: Walthall Message-Id: <9604022117.ZM11819@eos.ncsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Apr 2, 6:43pm, WaHu@aol.com wrote: > Subject: Re: Byron & Shelley & Blake > Blake did not know Shelley, but he knew Mary Shelley's Mother & Father. He > didn't know Byron either. Byron was, next to Napoleon, the most famous > human being of his generation. Michael Jackson or Mel Gibson type famous. > As an English Lord, his personal wealth was also in line with that of a > modern Entertainment Superstar. It would have been quite unusual if Byron > had known a Cockney shop keeper like William Blake. > > Hugh Walthall wahu@aol.com > > Byron knew Leigh Hunt, who was a Cockney, and so the fact that Blake was a Cockney is irrelevant to his relation to Byron. Jamison Oughton ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:19:08 -0500 From: "Jamison Ashley Oughton" To: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: Other Romantics Message-Id: <9604022119.ZM11823@eos.ncsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Are there any other discussion groups like this based on Shelley or Byron or Keats? Jamison Oughton ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 14:09:38 +1000 (EST) From: Brendan Harkin To: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: Walthall Message-Id: <199604030409.OAA04373@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Also, from memory, Byron's inheritence was 200 pounds per annum, which certainly caused him no worries as to how he would pay for his next edition of poems - but hardly 'entertainment superstar' status. Cheers, Brendan At 09:17 PM 2/04/96 -0500, you wrote: >On Apr 2, 6:43pm, WaHu@aol.com wrote: >> Subject: Re: Byron & Shelley & Blake >> Blake did not know Shelley, but he knew Mary Shelley's Mother & Father. He >> didn't know Byron either. Byron was, next to Napoleon, the most famous >> human being of his generation. Michael Jackson or Mel Gibson type famous. >> As an English Lord, his personal wealth was also in line with that of a >> modern Entertainment Superstar. It would have been quite unusual if Byron >> had known a Cockney shop keeper like William Blake. >> >> Hugh Walthall wahu@aol.com >> >> Byron knew Leigh Hunt, who was a Cockney, and so the fact that Blake was a >Cockney is irrelevant to his relation to Byron. > > Jamison Oughton > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:35:42 -0600 From: tomdill@womenscol.stephens.edu To: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: Blake's tombstone Message-Id: <96040222354262@womenscol.stephens.edu> Not only is there a marker at Westminster Abbey, but a bust by Epstein that is variously admired and hated (I think it is magnificent). Tom Dillingham ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 20:58:49 -0800 (PST) From: Ralph Dumain To: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: McGann on Blake Message-Id: <199604030458.UAA09761@igc4.igc.apc.org> HISTORICIZING BLAKE is so expensive, nobody could afford to buy such a thin bookfor so much, so I read the whole thing in the bookstore. It is priceless. I can;t remember everything in the book, but the essay on "Mock on mock on Rousseau Voltaire" is the most brilliant I have ever read on the topic. I think I uploaded something on this book months ago. Obviously there is a lot of sophsticated stuff out there I haven't had the opportunity to appropriate. Keep those refernces coming! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:05:12 -0800 (PST) From: Ralph Dumain To: blake@albion.com Subject: DUMAIN & SATAN & TOM & TOM & .... Message-Id: <199604030505.VAA10095@igc4.igc.apc.org> I'm sorry for confusing the two Tom D's. Given our private conversations, I was puzzled that Dillingham would suddenly come out and attack me, but I figured it might be his way of warning me once again not to let my fanaticism get out of control. What a faux pas. And thanks to all who have given me new references to pursue, especially re Jerome McGann. I knew I heard that name before I picked up his book in a used book store last week. Also, since my aims seem to be prone to being misunderstood, I hope I have not given the impression that I think Blake criticism as a whole is a crock or at best unsophisticated, or that scholars should not be tracking down the impact of various religious and esoteric doctrines on Blake. Especially regarding those who have been around long enough to see some of my other postings, such as my Blake birthday tributes, I hope people won't get the idea that characterizing Blake as a particular kind of "intellectual" circumscribes my interest in Blake. Quite obviously, all schools of criticism have grown immeasurably more sophisticated in the past 15-20 years. My aim is not to barge in and holler at everybody to stop what they are doing. But I am looking at new ways to frame Blake's importance in history as a figure who has taught us how to think in a way nobody else has done, and this has something to do with attaining a fuller understanding of how the self develops in and against the social world. I had several more brainstorms today, and my reading of Feuerbach this evening has given me even more to think about. But we all need a little rest from the mental wars of eternity. For mental war, against corporeal war. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 04:57:25 -0600 (CST) From: RPYODER@ualr.edu To: blake@albion.com Subject: RE: Byron & Shelley & Blake Message-Id: <960403045725.202964f7@ualr.edu> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT The obvious place to start on Blake and Byron is Blake's _The Ghost of Abel_ addressed "To LORD BYRON in the Wilderness"; the point of the address to Byron is not readily apparent, but my guess is that it has something to do with Byron's _Cain_. rpy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 07:46:39 -0500 (EST) From: "Victor N Paananen" To: blake@albion.com Subject: Dumain, Blake, Marx Message-Id: <199604031246.HAA179254@pilot12.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 2612 No, I'm afraid that, rather than a survey of Blake criticism, my revised book is just another introduction to Blake. It does have an annotated bibliography. The Breines article is Paul Breines, "Marxism, Romanticism, and the Case of Georg Lukacs: Notes on Some Recent Sources and Situations," Studies in Romanticism 16 (1977). The part of History and Class Consciousness that I feel contributes to seeing romanticism and Marxism as similar solutions to the crisis in bourgeois philosophy is the long central essay "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat." Bourgeois philosophy has been stuck with Hume and Kant in a skepticism that is the other side of subsequent thought (as oposed to romanticism and Marxism)--Modernism, structuralism, formalism, etc. Both romanticism (and there are degrees and variations) and Marxist oppose reification and engage subject and object while denying there is reality outside of experience. Other, related, parallels that interest me are in the account of the origin of theism offered by Blake, Shelley, and Marx, who are all basically offering the same explanation of how gods got loose from the human breast with resultant priestcraft and other evils. Blake's "post-theism" is Christian, with Jesus back within; Shelley's is atheism; Denys Turner has argued that Marx is best left as just "post-theist" ("Religion: Illusions and Liberation" in The Cambridge Companion to Marx). The Lenin that I use is precisely the Lenin that Dumain quotes, about philosophical idealism and "metaphysical" materialism. These parallels between Blake and other thinkers are, I feel, worth something when they point in common, explicating one another, to ways to change a culture buttressed by a convenient skepticism. Dumain's researches are the way to proceed. Sorry to take up so much space, but one final note. Joel R. Brouwer has an article, "The Origins of Jack Lindsay's Contributions to British Marxist Thought" in Nature, Society, and Thought, vol. 7, no 3 (1994)--a paper he wrote in a course of mine--that argues that Lindsay's lifelong devotion to Blake shaped his contributions to Marxist theory, which as Dumain suggests were in advance of his generation. Lindsay's intellectual struggles within the Stalinist hegemony are laid out in his Crisis in Marxism--only Thompson supported him. Lindsay never left the CP: when I interviewed him in 1980, he said, "They can kick me out, but I'll never leave." Enough from me for a long time. My best wishes to all who struggle to awake Albion from his long & cold 1repose, Dumain especially. Vic Paananen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 07:43:20 -0600 (CST) From: William Neal Franklin To: blake@albion.com Cc: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: Cockney? Message-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Jamison Ashley Oughton wrote in response to WaHu's remark, "It would have been quite unusual if Byron had known a Cockney shop keeper like William Blake" (Hugh Walthall wahu@aol.com) answering "Byron knew Leigh Hunt, who was a Cockney, and so the fact that Blake was a Cockney is irrelevant to his relation to Byron." Cockney is not a term I've read in the context of William Blake, though I can sort of see how it might apply. It was a contemptuous or bantering sort of reference to a city-boy of London which later came to be associated to the London dialect (so I'm told in the Oxford Companion). It also mentions the Cockney School as a "nickname given by Lockhart to a set of 19th-century writers...of whom Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt were representative members." I'm confused. Are you guys talking about the same thing? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 08:25:51 -0600 From: jmichael@seraph1.sewanee.edu (J. Michael) To: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: Free For All: Jerusalem ch. 2 Message-Id: <9604031430.AA23207@uu6.psi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > I am up on April 7 to present >Chapter two in my Independent Study class. In your opinions what do you >think are the most important points that need to made to a group of undergrads >reading it for the first time. I would definitely spend some time talking about the prefatory lyric on plate 27 ("The fields from Islington to Marybone"), which Morton Paley has called "an epitome of the entire poem." That would enable you to consider (a) the relation of the lyric to the poem as a whole, and (b) the relation of its *form* to that of the rest of the poem. (This touches on the issue of Blake's coherence/obscurity that some of us were discussing earlier.) Just my 2 cents, Jennifer Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:13:56 -0500 (EST) From: "Victor N Paananen" To: blake@albion.com Subject: Dumain, Blake, Marx Message-Id: <199604031713.MAA82647@pilot10.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 2611 No, I'm afraid that, rather than a survey of Blake criticism, my revised book is just another introduction to Blake. It does have an annotated bibliography. The Breines article is Paul Breines, "Marxism, Romanticism, and the Case of Georg Lukacs: Notes on Some Recent Sources and Situations," Studies in Romanticism 16 (1977). The part of History and Class Consciousness that I feel contributes to seeing romanticism and Marxism as similar solutions to the crisis in bourgeois philosophy is the long central essay "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat." Bourgeois philosophy has been stuck with Hume and Kant in a skepticism that is the other side of subsequent thought (as oposed to romanticism and Marxism)--Modernism, structuralism, formalism, etc. Both romanticism (and there are degrees and variations) and Marxist oppose reification and engage subject and object while denying there is reality outside of experience. Other, related, parallels that interest me are in the account of the origin of theism offered by Blake, Shelley, and Marx, who are all basically offering the same explanation of how gods got loose from the human breast with resultant priestcraft and other evils. Blake's "post-theism" is Christian, with Jesus back within; Shelley's is atheism; Denys Turner has argued that Marx is best left as just "post-theist" ("Religion: Illusions and Liberation" in The Cambridge Companion to Marx). The Lenin that I use is precisely the Lenin that Dumain quotes, about philosophical idealism and "metaphysical" materialism. These parallels between Blake and other thinkers are, I feel, worth something when they point in common, explicating one another, to ways to change a culture buttressed by a convenient skepticism. Dumain's researches are the way to proceed. Sorry to take up so much space, but one final note. Joel R. Brouwer has an article, "The Origins of Jack Lindsay's Contributions to British Marxist Thought" in Nature, Society, and Thought, vol. 7, no 3 (1994)--a paper he wrote in a course of mine--that argues that Lindsay's lifelong devotion to Blake shaped his contributions to Marxist theory, which as Dumain suggests were in advance of his generation. Lindsay's intellectual struggles within the Stalinist hegemony are laid out in his Crisis in Marxism--only Thompson supported him. Lindsay never left the CP: when I interviewed him in 1980, he said, "They can kick me out, but I'll never leave." Enough from me for a long time. My best wishes to all who struggle to awake Albion from his long & cold repose, Dumain especially. Vic Paananen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Apr 96 11:13 CST From: MLGrant@president-po.president.uiowa.edu To: blake@albion.com, "Jamison Ashley Oughton" Subject: Re[2]: Byron & Shelley & Blake Message-Id: <199604031717.LAA19377@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> *The Ghost of Abel,* one aspect of which is a response to Byron's *Cain,* is addressed to "Lord Byron in the Wilderness." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 12:12:19 EST From: BPPU83C@prodigy.com (MS TRACEY C GAUGHRAN) To: Blake@albion.com Subject: Intro Message-Id: <097.05088525.BPPU83C@prodigy.com> -- [ From: Tracey Gaughran * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] -- Hello to everyone! I thought I would comply with the stated etiquette and introduce myself, since I am new in these parts. I don't quite know what to tell you all about myself, beyond the fact that I wanna be Blake when I grow up. No, but seriously, I am a 25 yr. old graduate student in English at Michigan State University, very interested in/obsessed with Blake (also: Coleridge, British and American Modernism) . Is that enough? Too much? (Note the quick subject change:) I am currently working on a paper in which I am attempting to connect some of Shelley's perceptions with those of Taoism. I am particularly interested in the ideas expressed in Mount Blanc, though if any of you have some thoughts on this subject related to other works I'd be more than happy to hear from you. I would also be thrilled if any of you can refer me to helpful sources, previously published material on this, etc. Please send any/all ideas, comments, questions and other such stuff - or just write and introduce yourself! Thanks! I AM! - Tracey ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 11:14:06 -0600 (CST) From: HXNEWSAM@ualr.edu To: blake@albion.com Subject: RE: Free For All: Jerusalem ch. 2 Message-Id: <960403111406.202a1d18@ualr.edu> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Thanks so much for your two cents. I'll definitely look at it, I think we've all been finding Blake a little unaccessible this semster this will help a lot. Heather ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 13:42:27 -0500 (EST) From: izak@igs.net (Izak Bouwer) To: blake@albion.com Subject: BLAKE -- a question Message-Id: <199604031842.NAA20248@host.igs.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Forgive me for asking what is possibly a very stupid question. When Victor Paananen writes the following: "..all basically offering the same explanation of how gods got loose from the human breast with resultant priestcraft and other evils" I am confused. Are not all the gods ever thought of by man, all the priestcraft and other evils, all Ralph Dumain's professed atheism, all that Shelley and Marx and everybody else ever thought of and said, all part of the human breast? Marxism,Romanticism,modernism,structuralism, formalism,skepticism -- it is nice to play around with these concepts and lose oneself in little universes a la Jorge Luis Borges -- but what is Blake trying to teach us, Ralph? He felt the need to talk about something very urgently. He said: This theme calls me in sleep night after night,& ev'y morn awakes me at sunrise.. Gloudina Bouwer ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:31:28 -0800 (PST) From: James Zahradka To: blake@albion.com Subject: Re: Blake's tombstone Message-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Jennifer: It would be great if you could take a look at your snapshot and tell me what you can read off the marker. Also, the homeless person as reincarnation of Blake is quite intriguing . . . Thanks James Zahradka jfzahradka@ucdavis.edu -------------------------------- End of blake-d Digest V1996 Issue #27 *************************************