Blake and Kierkegaard Creation and Anxiety [Hardcover]

Introduction1. Blake and Kierkegaard: Shared Contexts 2. Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Socratic Tradition 3. Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Classical Model of Personality 4. Innocence, Generation, and the Fall in Blake and Kierkegaard 5. Creation Anxiety and The [First] Book of Urizen Index

InBlake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety, Rovira shows much skill in handling both writers on the basis of the comparative premises he sets up. The comparative strategy is a stimulating device&the author proves that there is something to be gained from translating Blakean terms into Kierkegaardian concepts. Through Kierkegaard, we are provided with a fresh sense of how another thinker's conceptual structures can be used to clarify Blake's often perplexing mythology. Robert W. Rix, University of Aalborg, Denmark