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Blake's Book of Los and Visionary Economics.(William Blake)(Critical Essay)

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From: ANQ
Date: 19990922
Author:WELCH, DENNIS M.

Between the infinite and the finite Blake's Book of Los (1795) rages. This prophetic poem, perhaps even more than The Book of Urizen (BU) (1794), bums with apocalyptic ire over the rationalization of passion and desire into order, balance, and security--into Urizen's "Solid," his one law.(1) And the one law that the wrath of Los spurns especially in his book was the increasingly dominant law of eighteenth-century economics--i.e., the law of supply and demand or of plenty and scarcity, abundance and loss.

Critics of The Book of Los, especially those eager to read ...

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