The late Hazard Adams was professor emeritus at the University of Washington’s department of comparative literature. He was known internationally as a scholar of William Blake, W.B. Yeats, Joyce Cary, and the history of criticism. He lived in Shelton, Washington.

• Table of ContentsNotes on the TextviiiIntroduction, Which Could Be a ConclusionBlake, Jerusalem, and Symbolic Form (1975)Contemporary Ideas of Literature: Terrible Beauty or Rough Beast? (1977)Essay on Frye (1991)Reynolds, Vico, Blackwell, Blake: The Fate of Allegory (1993)The ­World-View of William Blake in Relation to Cultural Policy (1993)Conference 2: Chinese and ­Japanese-American Literary Relations (1994)Is (Was) There No Tradition of Defense of Poetry in Chinese Culture? Why Has There Had to Be One in the West? (1995)Four Problems (Among Many) for Humanistic Thought (1995)“Literature” and the Visionary Tradition (1995)“Literature” into “Ecriture”? (1995)“An Antithetical Turn” (1996)Ekphrasis Revisited, or Antitheticality Reconstructed (2000)Quest and Cycle (2005)Origin(ality) (2007)The Marriage of Imagination and Intellect (2013)Chapter NotesIndex

The late Hazard Adams was professor emeritus at the University of Washington’s department of comparative literature. He was known internationally as a scholar of William Blake, W.B. Yeats, Joyce Cary, and the history of criticism. He lived in Shelton, Washington.

• Table of ContentsNotes on the TextviiiIntroduction, Which Could Be a ConclusionBlake, Jerusalem, and Symbolic Form (1975)Contemporary Ideas of Literature: Terrible Beauty or Rough Beast? (1977)Essay on Frye (1991)Reynolds, Vico, Blackwell, Blake: The Fate of Allegory (1993)The ­World-View of William Blake in Relation to Cultural Policy (1993)Conference 2: Chinese and ­Japanese-American Literary Relations (1994)Is (Was) There No Tradition of Defense of Poetry in Chinese Culture? Why Has There Had to Be One in the West? (1995)Four Problems (Among Many) for Humanistic Thought (1995)“Literature” and the Visionary Tradition (1995)“Literature” into “Ecriture”? (1995)“An Antithetical Turn” (1996)Ekphrasis Revisited, or Antitheticality Reconstructed (2000)Quest and Cycle (2005)Origin(ality) (2007)The Marriage of Imagination and Intellect (2013)Chapter NotesIndex