The alternative trinity : gnostic heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake
The Trinity of orthodox Christianity is harmonious. The Trinity for Blake is, conspicuously, not a happy family. This book explores the possibility of an underground 'perennial heresy', by examining the work of Marlowe, Milton and Blake
Print Book, English, 1998
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford [United Kingdom], New York, 1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780198184621, 9780191674327, 019818462X, 019167432X
38081671
Introduction ; Part I. Blake: The Son Versus the Father ; Part II. Raising the Devil: Marlowe's Doctor Faustus ; 1. Calvinists and Hermeticists ; 2. Flying Men and Gnostics ; Part III. Milton ; 1. Satan's Shield ; 2. Milton's Theodicy: The Argument from Freedom ; 3. The Garden as Maze ; 4. The Fortunate Fall ; 5. Arianism, Monism, Materialism ; 6. The Invisible Christ ; 7. The Language of Trees: Unstable Mythologies ; Part IV. Blake ; 1. Godly Nudists ; 2. The Matrix of Blake's Thought ; 3. Blake and Milton ; 4. Antinomian Blake ; 5. Contraries
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