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1987

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Review Of "Sam Patch: Ballad Of A Jumping Man" By W. Getz, Peter Schmidt Oct 1987

Review Of "Sam Patch: Ballad Of A Jumping Man" By W. Getz, Peter Schmidt

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Selfhood And Redemption In Blake's Songs, Harold E. Pagliaro Jan 1987

Selfhood And Redemption In Blake's Songs, Harold E. Pagliaro

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This reading of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience provides a more immediate sense of Blake's psychology of redemption and a more penetrating treatment of the role of death and sexuality in the Songs than is available in any other scholarly work. Pagliaro shows that the Songs not only anticipate the redemption generally associated with the later poems, but also make it available in such psychological detail as to give new meaning to Selfhood, Self-examination, and Self-annihilation, and to encourage the reader to participate in the redemptive process. This is the first book to stress the role death plays …