Blake List — Volume 1995 : Issue 3

Today's Topics:
	 Re:BLAKE ACTIVITY IN ENGLAND
	 Blake collection(s) in Washington
	 THOMAS J.J. ALTIZER ON BLAKE?
	 Re: THOMAS J.J. ALTIZER ON BLAKE?
	 Re: THOMAS J.J. ALTIZER ON BLAKE?
	 Blake URLs

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 08:27:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nelson Hilton 
To: blake@albion.com
Cc: blake@albion.com
Subject: Re:BLAKE ACTIVITY IN ENGLAND
Message-Id: 

See the _TLS_, June 23, 1995, p. 16, for two addresses and a dry account 
of some Blake-based goings-on in Albion.

   Nelson Hilton / English / University of Georgia / Athens GA 30602
 nhilton@parallel.park.uga.edu   http://parallel.park.uga.edu/~nhilton
     ---Was ist Los? the Net of Urizen or the Web of Life?---

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 08:03:49 -0600 (CST)
From: Wendy Stewart 
To: blake@albion.com
Cc: Wendy Stewart 
Subject: Blake collection(s) in Washington
Message-Id: 

Hello Blakeans,
	I should introduce myself before asking for information:  I'm an 
M.A. candidate at the U of Saskatchewan writing a thesis on Blake (and 
Pope) and have been enjoying this group for several months.
	Some time ago, there was a dicussion about Blake collections in 
Washington DC.  I didn't keep the posts, and now a friend is leaving for 
Washington in a few days and would like to investigate.  If anyone 
remembers the specifics of this thread, I would be very grateful if 
you would send me email at stewartw@herald.usask.ca.
	Thanks in advance--
Wendy Stewart

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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 04:14:18 -0700
From: Ralph Dumain 
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: THOMAS J.J. ALTIZER ON BLAKE?
Message-Id: <199507201114.EAA00386@igc2.igc.apc.org>

Long ago and far away I read some book by Thomas J.J. Altizer
which my hazy memory tells me dealt with William Blake.  I also
remember Altizer writing about death-of-God theology, maybe even
in the same book.  But I can't for the life of me remember the
title.  I just checked the Library of Congress holdings for
Altizer, but I don't recognize anything by title.  All of his
books there are on Christian theology and several on the death of
God, but I have no way of knowing offhand whether Blake is in any
of them.

Does anybody know what book I am talking about (assuming my brain
hasn't crossed wires?)

Bonus question:  I thought Altizer wrote about Hegel somewhere
too.  Did Altizer ever discuss Blake and Hegel together?

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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 09:59:49 CDT
From: Mark Trevor Smith 
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Re: THOMAS J.J. ALTIZER ON BLAKE?
Message-Id: <9507201508.AA10634@uu6.psi.com>

THE NEW APOCALYPSE (1963? Univ of Michigan) is a marvelous
Hegelian, death-of-God study of Blake, very provocative and
insightful.  Altizer, as in all of his books, is so extreme as to be
ludicrous, but so brilliant as to be worthwhile.  If I might be
permitted a gratuitous ad hominem aside, Altizer in person is
just as exasperating, startling (he loved to sport a referee-
style striped shirt in white and green that would dazzle the
eye when you looked in his direction, making conversation even
more dizzying than his words already did).  His book especially
informed about kenosis, the Christian atheist (Blake was the
first of those, says TJJA) idea that God has emptied himself out
completely into man, thus the divine form human.  Altizer
specializes in the sweeping generalization ("most" is his
favorite word, I remember) and has therefore moved on to completely
authoritative pronouncements on all epics. Hold onto your hats!
--Mark  mts231f@vma.smsu.edu  Mark Trevor Smith

On Thu, 20 Jul 1995 04:14:18 -0700 Ralph Dumain said:
>Long ago and far away I read some book by Thomas J.J. Altizer
>which my hazy memory tells me dealt with William Blake.  I also
>remember Altizer writing about death-of-God theology, maybe even
>in the same book.  But I can't for the life of me remember the
>title.  I just checked the Library of Congress holdings for
>Altizer, but I don't recognize anything by title.  All of his
>books there are on Christian theology and several on the death of
>God, but I have no way of knowing offhand whether Blake is in any
>of them.
>
>Does anybody know what book I am talking about (assuming my brain
>hasn't crossed wires?)
>
>Bonus question:  I thought Altizer wrote about Hegel somewhere
>too.  Did Altizer ever discuss Blake and Hegel together?
>

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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 11:27:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andrew Stauffer 
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Re: THOMAS J.J. ALTIZER ON BLAKE?
Message-Id: <199507201527.LAA21070@sunipc-1.unixlab.Virginia.EDU>

> 
> Long ago and far away I read some book by Thomas J.J. Altizer
> which my hazy memory tells me dealt with William Blake.  I also
> remember Altizer writing about death-of-God theology, maybe even
> in the same book.  But I can't for the life of me remember the
> title.

You're probably remembering Altizer's _The New Apocalypse_, in
which he explores Blake's reformation of the Christian idea of
the apocalyptic.
It's been a while since I read it, but I think he discusses Hegel here.

Hope this helps,
Andrew Stauffer
ams4k@virginia.edu

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Date: Sat, 22 Jul 95 13:46:16 UT
From: Seth Ross 
To: 'blake@albion.com' 
Subject: Blake URLs
Message-Id: 

Dear Blakeans:

Here are two Blake-related web resources:
     
http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/authors/blake.html

and
     
http://www.aa.net/~urizen/blake.html

Enjoy.

Yours,
Seth Ross

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