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The speaking garden in William Blake's The Book of Thel: metaphors of wisdom and compassion.(Critical Essay)
From: Journal of Literary Studies
Date: 20030301
Author:Martin, Julia
Summary
Responding to the reductionist and objectifying dualisms of scientific mechanism and authoritarian Christianity, Blake's work evokes a view of being in which "everything that lives is holy". In The Book of Thel (1789) this is exemplified in the representation of an ecologically interdependent Garden of speaking subjects. In this environment, the insubstantiality and impermanence of all subjectivity (which for Thel is a source of distress) is shown to be the necessary condition for love and reciprocity. This article is an appreciative reading of Thel in relation to the ...
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