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Prophetic Character: Essays on William Blake in Honor of John E. Grant.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

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From: Albion
Date: 20040322
Author:Miner, Paul

Alexander S. Gourlay, ed. Prophetic Character: Essays on William Blake in Honor of John E. Grant. West Cornwall, Conn,: Locust Hill Press. 2002. Pp. xxxiii, 396. $60.00. ISBN 0-933951-96-5.

The above volume assembles thirteen splendid (a word I do not frequently use) essays on William Blake. Although there will be no attempt to summarize these essays, their important demarcations should be noted.

Stephen C. Behrendt discusses the evolution of Blake's various designs of Pestilence (circa 1779-1805), pointing out that the early "realism" of the subject metamorphoses into ...

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