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The Orc Symbol In William Blake's Works, Michael James Finnigan Aug 1964

The Orc Symbol In William Blake's Works, Michael James Finnigan

Graduate Student Research Papers

A study of Orc, Blake's symbol for energy, suggests several different hypotheses. This paper intends to test the hypothesis that Orc is a force. With the use of illustrations and explications, Orc becomes more clearly a symbol of Blake's imaginative form. This energy will be seen at each level of Blake's visions, each different psychological stage, and at the highest level, poetic imagination. Thus, as the creator creates, the creation becomes the molded form of the creator's imagination.


Spenser: Reflections And Parallels In The Romantic Poets, Sara Rivers Aderholdt Jan 1963

Spenser: Reflections And Parallels In The Romantic Poets, Sara Rivers Aderholdt

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This paper calls attention to reasonable effects, noticeable echoes, and remarkable parallels of Edmund Spenser's philosophy and his treatment of myth and symbol as found in the Romantic poets.


English Religious Poetry Of The Nineteenth Century As Influenced By The Catholic Spirit, Mary Mida Jun 1926

English Religious Poetry Of The Nineteenth Century As Influenced By The Catholic Spirit, Mary Mida

Master's Theses

Since we are now entering upon the second quarter of the twentieth century, it follows that the perspective thus offered gives ample scope for an authoritative report on the literary output of the preceding century, in the special field chosen - English Religious Poetry. The older English poets wrote from an established point of view, that is, their human creed and their idea of man coincided, while the modern English poets voice the protest or the defense of those who have little in common save the genius of the Bard. This has led to a certain recklessness in the matter …