Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: WILLIAM BLAKE'S ILLUMINATIONS: POLITICS, POETRY, METAPHYSICAL MYTH (MARTEL)

Department: College Courses

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: A study of William Blake's illuminated visionary works, encountering his oceanic, volcanic, mystical, political, radically reimagined Western mythology. We will read slowly and closely several illustrated poetic works-especially focusing on his sublime and terrifying visual art-while making reference to Paradise Lost, Neo-Platonism, biblical passages, Sufi metaphysics, Michelangelo, Tolkien.