...Nelson Hilton Morton D. Paley. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. xiii + 330 pp. $57.00. Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 NELSON HILTON 4 13 The Continuing City: William Blake’s “Jerusalem.”By MORTOND. PALEY.Oxford...

...) ; “A godlie exhortacon unto Eng- lande to repent him of the evil1 and sinfull waies / shewinge thexample and distruccon of Jerlm and Andwarp” (November 15, 1578). Significantly, the third ballad dealt not only with the fall of Antwerp, but also with the ancient destruction of Jerusalem...

...), 445-59; and, more generally, Kurt Heinzelman, “The Economics of the Imagination” (Ph.D. diss., University of Massachu- setts, 1978). Jerusalem, 10:21, in The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. David V. Erdman (Gar- den City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965). All plate and line references...

.... Rising motion (as of birds, an- gels, and heroines of Bildungsrornane) could be the emblem of her fic- tion. I am not talking about upward mobility-although she is cer- tainly the teller of that good story too-but of an ascension more psychological and spiritual. In Jerusalem the Golden (1967...

..., and this “Auspicious Temple” also takes the place of the Jerusalem temple on its mount. It is auspicious both as a happy symbol here in the poem that the monarchy enshrined within it has prevailed over the moblike Commons, and as the sanctuary where auspices are taken, linking it, too, to the “oraculous shade...

... of worry and glory. . . . Through the London setting, the Ververs’ vast power of wealth, and the Prince’s Roman tradition, James nialtes this private struggle suggest the westward course of Empire, toward the New Jerusalem which America should ideally mean.”5 By association...

.... With chapter 3 on the Lambeth Books, Paley gets into high gear, and from here through Vala (ancl those revisions which made it into The Four Zoas), “l‘he Mental Traveller,” Millon, and Jerusalem the book demonstrates with great persuasiveness Hake’s wrestling with the duality of energy and its ulti...

... the only fea- tures the two structures have in common are their great height and their glit- tering ornaments. If we nevertheless accept the idea that the two buildings are similar, we are led further to the acceptance of Heorot as a type of celestial Jerusalem and to the arrival of Beowulf...

... for a truth great Babylon is fallen” (13.14). Placed after Du Bellay’s sonnets, those by Van der Noot culminate with St. John’s view of the New Jerusalem and thus conclude a se- quential order whose vision of the city proclaims that “all is nought but flying vanitie” (1.1 1). Set against...

... problematic work, the Siege of Jerusalem (ninth on the list), might be identified as Caxton’s Godfrey of BoZoyne (1481), the colo- phon of which begins, “Thus endeth this book Intitled the laste siege and conquest of Iher~salemAt the same time, four...

...), and on the interplay among them; it inquires as well into the literary construction of testimonial authority. University of Washington 2010 Liran Razinsky is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He works mainly in French and comparative literature and in psychoanalytic theory. He...

... convincingly argues was composed between 1432 and 1468. Because Stevens clearly cannot examine all forty-eight pageants, he selects the Skinners’ play of Christ’s Triumphal Entry to epitomize the entire York cycle, ingeniously comparing the dramatic entry of Christ into Jerusalem with the royal entry...

... van 0sfor details. 110 THE HOUSE OFFAM ing the physical positioning of the minstrels, the ordering of Chaucer’s catalogs, the description of the hall, and other miscella- neous symbolic details and actions.” Yet Chaucer’s “Heavenly Jerusalem...

... was born in West Jerusalem and speaks in the preface of his immense sad- ness at returning there a few years ago after a long exile, his memoir shows that he lived most of his childhood and youth in Cairo, where his father, a self-made man and an enormously talented entrepreneur, ran “by far...

... pointed out that, although Christians must not ordinarily use “guileful policie,” the Bible warrants its use when there is “so good a way with so little blood to take speedie vengeance of God’s enemies.”8 Lodowick Lloyd collected biblical stratagems into a book, The Stratagems of Jerusalem...

... as a Socially Symbolic Act . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Klein Ernest . 1987 . A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English . Jerusalem : Carta . Kugel James . 2007 . How to Read the Bible . New York : Free . Lamb Jonathan...

... at the raising of Lazarus. Only Michel places her among the holy women to whom Jesus gives his “daugh- ters of Jerusalem” speech on the cross, who succor the Virgin throughout the long Passion sequence, and who are comforted personally by Christ. The germ of this characterization is no doubt...

... three sections, “Babylon as Political Metaphor,” surveys the contrast of Babylon with the holy city—the earthly Jerusalem or the heavenly City of God—in writers such as Dante and Petrarch, Milton and Donne. The second section, “Babylon as Degenerate Archetype,” turns to the inhabitants, exploring how...

... is the way ofsalvation. Her weeping resembles the lanien- tations and repentance of Ololon in Milton and the weepings and gnashings of Los for Albion in Jerusalem. The same bleak reasoning of the despairing and dying youth in “The Couch” can be seen in “Contemplation,” but here there is no loving...

... . . . as there are major interpreters” (p. 169), then we are well into the Bloom and Fish time ma- chine of weak and strong readings and institutional convention as the maker of truth. Certainly the next strong reader of Jerusalem will find Morton Paley’s book an indispensable guide to the continuing city...