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'Wonders Divine': The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Myth. By SHIELA A. SPECTOR. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 213 pp. 46 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5468-6.
'Glorious Incomprehensible': The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Language. By SHIELA A. SPECTOR. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 202 pp. 46 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5469-4.
These two books on Blake are a pair, and anyone reading them together will find themselves wondering about the justification for breaking them into two, as it leads to some duplication of material and even of illustration, and because the case for Blake's close relationship to the Kabbala, if the reader is not convinced by the end of the first volume, will not seem stronger by the second. Further, the plan of writing them with virtually parallel chapters to each other (even almost parallel pagination) is bound to seem irritating. Almost exactly the same books of Blake get treated in both, and in a similar amount...
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