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William Blake and the Body.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
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March 22, 2004|
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Connolly, Tristanne J. 2002. William Blake and the Body. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $65.00 hc. xvii + 249 pp.
Anyone familiar with the works of William Blake, particularly his later epic poetry, must be aware of the centrality of the body in both his engraved and poetic images. Bodies and parts of bodies are displayed in a variety of grotesque manners throughout the illuminated texts. However, this area of Blake's aesthetic has been, for the most part, relatively glossed over or simply ignored. In 1974, Anne K. Mellor published Blake's Human Form Divine, and that ...
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