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"Sublime labours": aesthetics and political economy in Blake's Jerusalem.(William Blake)(Critical essay)
From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20070322
Author:Schierenbeck, Daniel
FROM THE OUTSET OF HIS EPIC POEM JERUSALEM, BLAKE HIGHLIGHTS THE importance of aesthetic perception. Above the archway in the original frontispiece, Blake describes "A pleasant Shadow of Repose calld Albions lovely Land / His Sublime & Pathos become Two Rocks fixd in the Earth / His Reason his Spectrous Power, covers them above / Jerusalem his Emanation is a Stone laying beneath" (1:3-6). (1) Northrop Frye argues that Blake's opening image suggests a Druidic trilithon, which "represents a geometrical or abstract form of the perversion of the three classes" that Blake identifies in ...
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