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Page 87
... force in Bread ? ... Man lives not by Bread only , but each Word / Proceeding from the mouth of God " ( I , 347-50 ) . He unmasks Satan's rhetoric- " lying is thy sustenance , thy food " -as " dark , / Ambiguous and with double sense ...
... force in Bread ? ... Man lives not by Bread only , but each Word / Proceeding from the mouth of God " ( I , 347-50 ) . He unmasks Satan's rhetoric- " lying is thy sustenance , thy food " -as " dark , / Ambiguous and with double sense ...
Page 130
... force binds the poem into a cohering structure . Gesture , posture , movement , and block form sustain each page as a field of force . The text's physical presence is apparent at once . The first plate of Jerusalem [ 20 ] is the literal ...
... force binds the poem into a cohering structure . Gesture , posture , movement , and block form sustain each page as a field of force . The text's physical presence is apparent at once . The first plate of Jerusalem [ 20 ] is the literal ...
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... force of the poem : And every Man stood Fourfold . each Four Faces had . One to the West One toward the East One to the South One to the North . the Horses Fourfold And the dim Chaos brightend beneath , above , around ! Eyed as the ...
... force of the poem : And every Man stood Fourfold . each Four Faces had . One to the West One toward the East One to the South One to the North . the Horses Fourfold And the dim Chaos brightend beneath , above , around ! Eyed as the ...
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ONE Introduction | 3 |
the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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