William Blake: Neo-Platonist and Sexual Radical?
William Blake's prophetic works seem to present the reader with a puzzling contradiction. On the one hand Blake can be read as a prophet of sexual revolution with his attacks on puritanism and hypocritical chastity. On the other hand, in many passages he seems to express characteristically Platonic/...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Platonic Tradition Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 29 - 48 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2022
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