Strange prophecies anew : rereading apocalypse in Blake, H.D., and Ginsberg
"Focusing on cultural change, genre reinvention, and modern and postmodern approaches to language, "Strange Prophecies Anew": Rereading Apocalypse in Blake, H.D., and Ginsberg revives questions of religious and political authority in poetic prophecy. Prophets generally function as figures of dissent in religious and literary history; yet scholars tend toward readings that produce a consolidation of authority, a distinctly Miltonic visionary line and a select "visionary company." Tony Trigilio describes an alternative lineage, demonstrating that the prophetic poetries of William Blake, H.D., and Allen Ginsberg create a counter-history which resists religious and literary orthodoxy to such an extent that it revises the very tradition which authorizes it."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2000
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses, Madison [N.J.], London, ©2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
209 pages ; 24 cm
9780838638545, 0838638546
44167092
Blurring the line of vision: estrangement and the prophetic tradition
The "moment Satan cannot find": Blake's transferential language of vision in Milton
The measure of "deplorable gaps in time": a language for visionary history in Trilogy
"Sanituy a trick of agreement": madness and doubt in Ginsberg's prophetic poetry
Conclusion: apocalypse without end