Karl Kiralis (essay date 1959)
SOURCE: "A Guide to the Intellectual Symbolism of William Blake's Later Prophetic Writings," in Criticism, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring, 1959, pp. 190-210.
[In the following essay, Kiralis offers an interpretation of the symbolism in Blake's Jerusalem in order to elucidate this poem as well as other later prophetic writings, such as Milton and The Four Zoas.]
For various reasons, some simple, some complex, the later writings of William Blake have remained generally unread since the time they were composed in...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©1995 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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