Blake's Critique of Transcendence: Love, Jealousy, and the Sublime in The Four Zoas

Blake's Critique of Transcendence: Love, Jealousy, and the Sublime in The Four Zoas

Blake's Critique of Transcendence is the first full-length book to examine in any detail or consistency the relation between Blake's text and the visual designs in The Four Zoas , one of the most important works in Blake's oeuvre . "Otto's confidence in treating the poem and its illustrations will encourage the student to read this difficult poem...extensive bibliography is [] extremely useful."-- Studies in Romanticism "Successfully connects Blake's cultural milieu of transcendence to the embodiment at work in The Four Zoas .... Otto's insightful commentary unveils the strained relations within the poem extending from self to history, from spirit to body."-- Wordsworth Cicle Peter Otto is Senior Lecturer in English, University of Melbourne