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Nature, Reason, and Eternity: Images of the Divine Vision in The Four Zoas

Shaw, Cathy
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1387804865

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1973, BA, Oberlin College, English.
In The Four Zoas, Blake wages mental war against nature and mystery, reason and tyranny. As a dream in nine nights, the world of The Four Zoas illustrates an unreal world which nevertheless represents the real world to Albion, the dreamer. The dreamer is Blake's archetypal and eternal man; he has fallen asleep among the flowers of Beulah. The world he dreams of is a product of his own physical laziness and mental lassitude. In this world, his faculties vie with each other for power until the ascendance of Los, the imaginative shaper. Los heralds the apocalypse, Albion reawakes, and the world takes on once again its original eternal and infinite form.
Robert Longsworth (Advisor)
55 p.
Literature
Four Zoas; William Blake;

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  • Shaw, C. (1973). Nature, Reason, and Eternity: Images of the Divine Vision in The Four Zoas [Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1387804865

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Shaw, Cathy. Nature, Reason, and Eternity: Images of the Divine Vision in The Four Zoas. 1973. Oberlin College, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1387804865.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Shaw, Cathy. "Nature, Reason, and Eternity: Images of the Divine Vision in The Four Zoas." Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College, 1973. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1387804865

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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