S. Foster Damon (essay date 1924)
SOURCE: "The Completed Symbol," in William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924, pp. 154-67.
[An American educator, poet, and critic, Damon wrote several books on Blake's poetry, including William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols, a scholarly study that is considered one of the major works in Blake criticism. In the following excerpt taken from that book, Damon explicates The Four Zoas, presenting the poem as "the first and greatest complete expression of [Blake 's] vision of the...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©1995 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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