Blake List — Volume 1998 : Issue 11

Today's Topics:
	 Mental Traveller
	 fame. -Reply
	 Mental Traveller -Reply
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	 Re: The Mental Traveller
	 Re: fame.
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	      Mental Traveller
	 Mental Traveller -Reply
	 Re: fame. -Reply
	 Re: The Mental Traveller
	 Re: fame. -Reply
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	 Re: The Mental Traveller
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 20:17:25 -0800
From: Wendy Williams 
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Mental Traveller
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Hi everyone  I am new to this, so here it goes.  I am writing a paper on 
"The Mental Traveller", and have run into some difficulty with the 
various interpretations of the poem.  Every critic seems to discredit 
the other.  While N. Frye's has been the most helpful thus far, I was 
wondering if any of you had some insights, or have run into similar 
struggels.  Would love to hear anyone's opinion!  Thanks 
		Wendy Williams
		wjw@ptld.uswest.net

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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:25:04 +0200
From: P Van Schaik 
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: fame. -Reply
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INteresting queries, Rachel. As I'm not sure whether my answers have
been getting through to Blake online, I'll keep this short.  First, Blake's
views on everything are still way ahead of those upheld by even our
society.... mainly because he sees every particle of existence as holy
beacuase at its centre is the divine light of a totally merciful God.  His
historical context  was millenarian (See RObert Owen on this) . David
Erdman takes an historical view of the longer poems, but I personally find
this too limiting to do justice to the spiritual implications of the poems
which deal basically with how and why Man fell from paradise and how
he may regain this by total selflessness.  How BLake departs from
Hobbes, the Deists etc, though, may well be in line with your h