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re: uni of california
Re: Blake professors
Re: Strictly Academic
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Blake List hiatus 7/10 - 7/26
Re: Strictly Academic
Re: Blake professors
Re: introduction
Re: introduction
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Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 11:57:50 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Henriette Stavis
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: re: uni of california
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Dear Ron Javorsky,
Thank you for offering to help me. Blake-wise I'm a little isolated here
in Denmark. I wonder whether you could give me an impression of what each
teacher stands for. I'm particularly thinking of what kind of approach
they have to Blake. As I might have mentioned, I'm looking for a Blake
expert who would be willing to function as a consulting expert to my
Ph.D. project. Ideally, I would prefer someone in Europe, but at this
stage I'm more interested in finding someone suitable academically rather
than geographically. My angle on Blake is mainly metaphysical and
religious ie. I look at time and space as elements of religious -
specifically Christian and Jewish - metaphysics and ideology.
My home computer is also playing games with me, but I hope to be able to
contact the University of California website, when my modem starts
behaving itself again.
Sincerely,
Henriette Stavis.
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Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 12:02:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Henriette Stavis
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Re: Blake professors
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Dear Donna,
Thank you for your tip about Prof. Fairchild. Could you perhaps give me
an indication of what he stands for and what kind of approach he has? I'm
looking for a compatible Blake expert who would be willing to function as
a consultant on my Ph.D. project, and I'm interested in any
recommmendation that you could give me.
Yours sincerely,
Henriette Stavis.
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Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 15:37:08 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Henriette Stavis
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Re: Strictly Academic
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Dear Randall Albright,
If you are interested in academic, comparative studies of Blake and Yeats I
can recommend:
1. Hazard Adams: Blake and Yeats - The Contrary Vision (1955)
2. Margaret Rudd: Divided Image - A Study of Blake and Yeats (1953)
Henriette Stavis.
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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 21:40:04 -0400
From: "R.H. Albright"
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: l o w
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When the truth you thought you'd found turns out to be
l i e s . . .
and all the joy within you
d i e s . . .
and you thought you were a "teacher"
for the New Life to come.
But the mills just got worse,
no one's paying,
life feels cursed...........
M I L - -
T O N !
It's a tease.
Dire need,
Los is down on his knees..........
M I L - -
T O N !
Am I blue? Yes, it's true.
It can happen to you.
When your revolution has gone down in flames.
Am I here? Are you near?
Have you lost your audience, here?
Are you painting hideous little
curios for your Felpham patron and yearning to be...
free, again, and not just next year?
You've jumped through epic leaps, but
what's it for?
No one understands you.
There are erasures, galore.
What a nightmare
in your mind,
people sliding in and out of time...
Every breath you take, and every move you make,
somebody is watching you.
But where did it all go wrong?
Kuh kuh kuh kuh
correction time.
~~~~~~~~~~
"Whatever can be Created can be Annihilated. Forms cannot."
---_Milton_, from plate Erdman/35d, Keynes/32
Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva. But overrriding Brahma.
"To bathe in the Waters of Life, to wash off the Not Human,
I come in Self-annihilation
[any resonance for Hindu-Buddhist "nothing" people?]
& the grandeur of Inspiration;
[and to whom do you owe that inspiration?]
To cast off Rational Demonstration by Faith in the Saviour,
[How can you *rationalize* faith?]
To cast off the rotten rags of Memory by Inspiration,
[George Santayana wasn't ALL wrong!]
To cast off Bacon, Locke & Newton from Albion's covering,
[It's that evil triad again!]
To take off his filthy garments, & clothe him with Imagination."
[Blake is clearly on the Los side of the story.]
--- _Milton_, from plate Erdman/48a, Keynes/41
"To cast off the idiot Questioner who is always questioning
But never capable of answering, who sits with a sly grin
Silent plotting when to question, like a thief in a cave;
[...............]
Who publishes doubt & calls it knowledge,
[Oh, my Dear Mister Blake! Is it Urizen's error, or yours,
to blur knowledge with wisdom? Yes, Bacon said, "Knowledge is
power," & that can cut two ways, as Nietzsche also knew, but...
don't you want Luke Skywalker to at least be able
to wrestle Darth Vadar until he lets him go, at the end?
Nietzsche's Dionysus turned into Jesus, by the way,
or so I hear........
And we could be HEROES, if just for one day.]
whose Science is Despair,
[She BLINDED me with science........]
Whose pretence to knowledge is Envy,
[yes, ENVY.........]
whose whole Science is
To destroy the wisdom of ages to gratify ravenous Envy,
That rages round him like a Wolf day & night without rest.".
--- _Milton_, from plate Erdman/48a, Keynes/41
~~~~~~~~~~
Gary Snyder talks about how the Shaman doesn't really know what he's doing,
but how Mahayana Buddhism has stuffed itself into some... intellectual
corner. Does that correlate at all?
----Randall Albright
http://world.std.com/~albright/
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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 98 10:41:59 -0700
From: Seth T. Ross
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Blake List hiatus 7/10 - 7/26
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Blakeans:
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:57:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Watt James
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Re: Strictly Academic
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Wow. What a poignant posting! with the mysterious title "strictly
academic" one hopes that all bill's done with is something like a paper or
a book!
Jim Watt
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Bill & Ingrid Wagner wrote:
> Bill's Done.
>
> Some times it seems all I can do harm...
>
> Bye
>
>
>
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 20:33:19 EDT
From: HumWolf@aol.com
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Re: Blake professors
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Dear Henriette,
I'm afraid I can't help you very much. Professor Fairchild didn't discuss
his personal position on Blake in the class. I can send you his tel. # now,
and his office hours when the fall quarter begins. Donna Guiliano
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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 09:14:33 -0600 (MDT)
From: bigley@selway.umt.edu (Bruce Bigley)
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Re: introduction
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>My name is Henriette Stavis, and I work as a teacher of British
>Literature at the University of Copenhagen. My interest in Blake stems
>from my MA-thesis, where I compared Blake's time symbolism with that of
>Yeats. I am presently trying to get a Ph.D. scholarship with a project
>that focuses on Blake's relationship to early German Romanticism. If
>anyone has information on any of these (or other) topics, I would be more
>than pleased to hear from you.
>
>Henriette.
>
>
>
Dear Henriette
I know Blake quite well and I at least used to know quite a bit about early
German romanticism, especially Friedrich Schlegel. I am not aware of any
historical connection between Blake and the Germans (Blake's ideas being
pretty well formed by the time the Schlegels got to work), but there are
certainly interesting parallels.
I would be interested in following your work, and feel free to consult with
me if you think I can be of help.
Bruce Bigley
Chair
English, University of Montana
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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 98 18:31:38 -0700
From: Seth T. Ross
To: blake@albion.com
Cc: rdumain@igc.apc.org
Subject: Re: introduction
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Forwarding for Ralph ...
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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 98 10:20:55 -0700
To: blake@albion.com, blake@albion.com
From: Ralph Dumain
Subject: Re: introduction
I was off the list and missed the original query and likely some of the
responses. The closest to a direct connection I ever heard about was Crabb
Robinson, but there's no indication I can recall that he ever transmitted
any German ideas to Blake. So as to the question of parallels, I'm very
curious about this myself, so I would appreciate it if Bruce Bigley could
make his further thoughts on this topic public. Also, without compromising
her project, I hope Ms. Stavis could outline the relationships she hopes to
establish. There are a number of works that looks for common themes among
the writers of the Romantic era (isn't M.H. Abrams one of these folks?), but
it seems to me that the differentia specifica are as crucial as the
commonalities. I need to learn a whole lot more about the Germans myself,
but Blake is so different from the other English Romantics, and his
relationship to the world of learning was so different, that I'm wondering
whether any of the Germans echoed any of Blake's unique characteristics.
But I'm here to learn.
At 09:14 AM 7/8/98 -0600, Bruce Bigley wrote:
>>My name is Henriette Stavis, and I work as a teacher of British
>>Literature at the University of Copenhagen. My interest in Blake stems
>>from my MA-thesis, where I compared Blake's time symbolism with that of
>>Yeats. I am presently trying to get a Ph.D. scholarship with a project
>>that focuses on Blake's relationship to early German Romanticism. If
>>anyone has information on any of these (or other) topics, I would be more
>>than pleased to hear from you.
>>
>>Henriette.
>
>Dear Henriette
>
>I know Blake quite well and I at least used to know quite a bit about early
>German romanticism, especially Friedrich Schlegel. I am not aware of any
>historical connection between Blake and the Germans (Blake's ideas being
>pretty well formed by the time the Schlegels got to work), but there are
>certainly interesting parallels.
>
>I would be interested in following your work, and feel free to consult with
>me if you think I can be of help.
>
>Bruce Bigley
>Chair
>English, University of Montana
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