Blake and Kierkegaard

James Rovira is Assistant Professor of English at Tiffin University, Ohio, USA.

"Blake and Kierkegaard speak from the same instinct of the human condition and of man's states of anxiety and self-awareness. James Rovira offers a highly nuanced comparative reading of both author's concepts, of innocence and experience, creation and fall, that not only enhances our understanding of the works under consideration but affirms their abiding and life-affirming relevance to modern thought."

• Introduction 1. 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