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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 20:17:25 -0800
From: Wendy Williams
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Mental Traveller
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Hi everyone I am new to this, so here it goes. I am writing a paper on
"The Mental Traveller", and have run into some difficulty with the
various interpretations of the poem. Every critic seems to discredit
the other. While N. Frye's has been the most helpful thus far, I was
wondering if any of you had some insights, or have run into similar
struggels. Would love to hear anyone's opinion! Thanks
Wendy Williams
wjw@ptld.uswest.net
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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:25:04 +0200
From: P Van Schaik
To: blake@albion.com
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INteresting queries, Rachel. As I'm not sure whether my answers have
been getting through to Blake online, I'll keep this short. First, Blake's
views on everything are still way ahead of those upheld by even our
society.... mainly because he sees every particle of existence as holy
beacuase at its centre is the divine light of a totally merciful God. His
historical context was millenarian (See RObert Owen on this) . David
Erdman takes an historical view of the longer poems, but I personally find
this too limiting to do justice to the spiritual implications of the poems
which deal basically with how and why Man fell from paradise and how
he may regain this by total selflessness. How BLake departs from
Hobbes, the Deists etc, though, may well be in line with your h