Blake and the Bible / Claudia Gryvatz Copquin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Copquin, Claudia Gryvatz, Author.

Contributor:

Jackson, Kenneth T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blake, William, 1757-1827--Religion.

Blake, William.

Bible--In literature.

Bible.

Religious poetry, English--History and criticism.

Religious poetry, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Bible was crucial for William Blake and for his poetic genius, whether as an object of criticism or as an inspiration. This book-the first substantial study of the topic in sixty years-locates Blake within the broad spectrum of Christian biblical interpretation and explores the ways in which Blake engaged with the Bible. Christopher Rowland argues that Blake's approach to the Bible was broadly consistent, even though he underwent something of a religious change in his later years. The author also shows how Blake saw himself as being in the prophetic tradition and also as somehow continuing the work of John of Patmos, author of the Book of Revelation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of illustrations

List of plates

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chronology of William Blake's life

Editorial note and abbreviations

1. The Old and New Testaments are 'the Great Code of Art'

2. 'Thus did Job continually' The biblical hermeneutics of Blake's Job engravings: Part I

3. 'But now my eye seeth thee' The biblical hermeneutics of Blake's Job engravings: Part II

4. Exploring the contraries in divinity

5. Blake and 'The Bible of Hell' The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The First Book of Urizen and drawings for the Book of Enoch

6. 'Would to God that all the Lords people were prophets'

7. William Blake and the radical interpretation of the Bible Gerrard Winstanley, Abiezer Coppe, Ralph Cudworth, and Hans Denck

8. 'From impulse not from rules' Blake and Jesus

9. Antinomianism, atonement and life in the Divine Body Blake and Paul

10. Interpreting the Bible through images

11. Blake and biblical interpretation Some Concluding Reflections

Appendix I

Appendix II

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Blake's texts and illuminated books

Index of references to Blake's images

Index of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and other Jewish texts

Index of New Testament and other early Christian texts

Index of names and subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300168389

0300168381

OCLC:

1023998418