"Where is Earth?": Reading Global Vision and the View from Nowhere in Edward Young’s Night Thoughts and William Blake’s The Four Zoas.

This article examines the theme of global vision and the "view from nowhere" in Edward Young’s mid-eighteenth-century poem *Night Thoughts* and its influence on William Blake’s later work, particularly *The Four Zoas*. Young’s poem frequently employs the image of the terrestrial globe as a metaphor...

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Published in:	Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 273 - 292
Main Author:	Ritchie, Caroline Anjali
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	University of Pennsylvania Press Winter2024
Subjects:	Worldview Blake, William, 1757-1827 Poetry (Literary form) Symbolism in literature Objectivity Enlightenment Poets Contemplation
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost