The Incarnate Word: Literature as Verbal Space |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 54
Page 91
... head , " enclos'd / In Serpent " : Circular base of rising folds , that tow'r'd Fold above fold a surging Maze , his Head Crested aloft , and Carbuncle his Eyes ; With burnisht Neck of verdant Gold , erect Amidst his circling Spires ...
... head , " enclos'd / In Serpent " : Circular base of rising folds , that tow'r'd Fold above fold a surging Maze , his Head Crested aloft , and Carbuncle his Eyes ; With burnisht Neck of verdant Gold , erect Amidst his circling Spires ...
Page 92
... head . Christ's rejections prefigure his final victory over Satan and his demonic visions - the final moment , foretold in Paradise Lost , when the seed of Eve will bruise the serpent's head : And on the Serpent thus his curse let fall ...
... head . Christ's rejections prefigure his final victory over Satan and his demonic visions - the final moment , foretold in Paradise Lost , when the seed of Eve will bruise the serpent's head : And on the Serpent thus his curse let fall ...
Page 96
... head will be bruised by the seed of Eve and emptied forever of its words and lies , rendered amazed and mute for eternity . Satan understands this as well as Christ . He has witnessed Jesus ' baptism with " dread attending when that ...
... head will be bruised by the seed of Eve and emptied forever of its words and lies , rendered amazed and mute for eternity . Satan understands this as well as Christ . He has witnessed Jesus ' baptism with " dread attending when that ...
Contents
ONE Introduction | 3 |
the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
Copyright | |
2 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Ariel becomes Blake's bliss blood body's Borges Burroughs Burroughs's Caliban cave Christ circle consciousness create dark death Diddy dream dreamer earth earthly ecstatic empty enclosed enclosure Ernest de Selincourt eternal experience eyes fall fallen world field figure final flesh flower fold garden Geoffrey Keynes God's grace grove harvest head heaven Henry Moore human body imagination incarnation infinite inhabited island Jerusalem landscape language Malcolm de Chazal meditative metaphor mind Miranda Naked Lunch nature novels Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Paul Klee Pearl perception plate play poem's poet poet's Poetry posture Prospero reader reading Roethke round Satan satire seed sense sexual shape sleep Soft Machine spatial sphere stone story structure Swift Tale Tempest texture thou tion University Press verbal space vision visionary wandering William Blake William Carlos Williams womb words Wordsworth writes York þat