William Blake's Visual Sublime: The "Eternal Labours"

• Published in: European romantic review Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 29 - 48
• Main Author: Ibata, Hélène
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 01.02.2010
• Subjects: Humanities and Social Sciences; Literature

This essay examines Blake's visual aesthetics in the light of recent theories of the sublime. The latter, by seeing the sublime as a dynamic process located within creative activity itself, rather than as an experience that transcends the human, shed new light on Blake's practice and theor...