William Blake’s Urizen, Allen Ginsberg’s Moloch and the Shadowy Sleep of Death
The shadowy realms of William Blake’s Urizen (The Book of Urizen) and Allen Ginsberg’s Moloch (Howl) entail a conceptual reversal between life and death via ‘sleep’ imagery. The Biblical association of ‘sleep’ with ‘death’ is overturned in the prophetic poems of both Blake and Ginsberg towards a...
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Bucharest University Press
2017-06-01
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| Series: | University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series |
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| Online Access: | https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/AndreeaParis-Popa.pdf |