William Blake and the Productions of Time
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Review "His study examines areas entirely new to me.... brilliant and far-reaching, but also dense and complex. ... At 348 pages, William Blake and the Productions of Time is hefty enough, butcontrary to Samuel Johnson's assessment of ParadiseLost, one might still wish it longer." Blake Quarterly 50 (summer 2016)."Cooper's engaging performance as a senior scholar ... deftly, easily and meaningfully draws into hisstudy figures such as Eliot and Borges, Herbert and Marvell, the MontyPython players and Walter Benjamin, without concern for chronologicalpositioning: every poet and every author speaks to every other author inCooper's work within a phenomenology of the eternal present." Journal forEighteenth-Century Studies, Sept. 2015A Yankee Book Peddler US Core Title for 2013 A Baker & Taylor Literary Essentials Title '... fascinating readings ... strikingly fresh interpretations ... Cooper's study is an impressively learned and rewarding read...' Review of English Studies June, 2014 Read more About the Author Andrew M. Cooper recently retired as Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Read more
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Reviews
This is an essential book for Blake scholars and aficionados alike. Cooper shows that historicist approaches are important in understanding Blake--Cooper uses historical background to build his arguments. But, as he also shows, Blake's own practice was not to reproduce the history, but to transform and go beyond it to a vision of society and humanity that is universal in scope, Blake incorporates history into what he called "Eternity"--his visionary time. But Blake wrote, "Eternity is in love with the productions of time," and Cooper shows that poetry and art are the way that the imagination can effect real change. Point value supports infinity, and infinity supports point.
