William Blake and the Productions of Time

Download or read book William Blake and the Productions of Time written by Andrew M. Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the idea that a writer's work reflects his experiences in time and place, Cooper locates the action of William Blake's major illuminated books in the ahistorical present, an impersonal spirit realm beyond the three-dimensional self. Historicist attempts to place Blake's vision in perspective, Cooper argues, involve a self-contradictory denial of his performativity as a poet-artist of multiple geometrical dimensions.