Blake And Modern Literature

Blake and Modern Literature Edward Larrissy Blake and Modern Literature Also by Edward Larrissy: READING TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY: THE LANGUAGE OF GENDER AND OBJECTS ROMANTICISM AND POSTMODERNISM (editor) WILLIAM BLAKE YEATS THE POET: THE MEASURES OF DIFFERENCE Blake and Modern Literature Edward Larrissy © Edward Larrissy 2006 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2006 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN-13: 978–1–4039–4176–3 hardback ISBN-10: 1–4039–4176–9 hardback This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Larrissy, Edward. Blake and modern literature / Edward Larrissy. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1–4039–4176–9 (cloth) 1. Blake, William, 1757–1827 – Influence. 2. Literature, Modern – 20th century – History and criticism. 3. English literature – 20th century – History and criticism. I. Title PR4148.I52L37 2006 821⬘.7—dc22 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham and Eastbourne 2006042625 Contents Acknowledgements 1 vi Introduction: Blake Between Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism 1 Zoas and Moods: Myth and Aspects of the Mind in Blake and Yeats 18 3 Eliot Between Blake and Yeats 28 4 Blake and Oppositional Identity in Yeats, Auden and Dylan Thomas 37 5 Blake and Joyce 56 6 ‘Deposits’ and ‘Rehearsals’: Repetition and Redemption in The Anathémata of David Jones: A Comparison and Contrast with Blake 70 7 Blake, Postmodernity and Postmodernism 80 8 Joyce Cary: Getting it from the Horse’s Mouth 100 9 Two American Disciples of Blake: Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg 108 2 10 Postmodern Myths and Lies: Iain Sinclair and Angela Carter 125 11 Salman Rushdie, Myth and Postcolonial Romanticism 146 12 156 Conclusion Appendix 157 Notes 158 Bibliography 171 Index 178 v Acknowledgements An earlier version of Chapter 2 appeared in Myth and the Making of Modernity: The Problem of Grounding in Early Twentieth-Century Literature, ed. Michael Bell and Peter Poellner (Amsterdam and Atlanta GA: Rodopi, 1998); Chapter 6, in David Jones: Artist and Poet (Warwick Studies in the European Huma