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What happens when: narrative and the changing sequence of plates in Blake's Jerusalem, Chapter 2.(William Blake)(Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion)(Critical Essay)
From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20020622
Author:Yoder, R. Paul
READINGS OF WILLIAM BLAKE'S JERUSALEM THE EMANATION OF THE Giant Albion have reached a consensus rather remarkable for such a difficult poem. Critics ranging from Joanne Witke to Morton Paley to V. A. de Luca to W. J. T. Mitchell all agree that Blake's last great epic poem has no coherent narrative spanning its 100 plates. (1) They may see the poem's chapters as "synoptic" like the gospels, or they may see the poem's events in a spatial rather than temporal relation to each other, or they may see the narrative as subordinate to the designs and blocked by impenetrable "walls of ...
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