Conclusion: Blake’s Living Ironies
摘要
The Conclusion argues that the relief-etched materiality of Blake’s many paradoxes and dédoublements serves to re-presence, however faintly, the semantic matrix of potentialities latent in the prophet’s original writing situation—potentialities that were first embodied for him in his Notebook’s creative Receptacle. Whatever relevance Blakean critique still holds, it is the living undecidability of these material ironies that supplies its source today. The modern inheritor of his mantle, I suggest, is not Allen Ginsberg, whose breathy confessional afflatus sweeps all before it, but the knotty Objectivist George Oppen. For Oppen as for Blake, difficulty is the true sign of engagement with a world always concrete and single in experience while yet remaining multitudinous in ways that forever elude the self.