Of Avatars and Apotheoses: David Fallon's Blake

Abstract

Somehow an artistic singularity as stellar as William Blake tends to take on the scattered spuriosities of his diverse readers. From S. T. Coleridge to Kenneth Clark, all sorts of critics regularly rediscover themselves in Blake's enigmatic rantings. Whatever your poetical, philosophical or political proclivities, you will most likely be able to find them confirmed by this bad boy, who after an initial show of struggle, quickly caves to give up the confirming symbolic goods. To put this another way: as an indicative recent collection like Blake 2.0 demonstrates, there haven't been too many selective conceptual reuptake inhibitors at work in the ongoing transmission of Blake's legacy, whether..