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Title: Love and Logic: The Evolution of Blake's Thought by Stephen Cox ISBN: 0-472-10304-0 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.50

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Summary: the best book on Blake's poetry in recent years
Comment: A fascinating and erudite study of the various principles and strategies of logic that Blake used to examine love, his poetry's most frequent theme. In reading Blake's poems, one may thoughtlessly elide Blake's different types of logic by regarding them (as many of us were taught in undergraduate survey courses) as uniformly dialectical, but Cox shows how Blake's use of logic evolved as Blake matured as a poet. (In this, Cox shares something in common with Peter Thorslev, who has revealed "Some Dangers of Dialectical Thinking" that were known to Blake -- and his critics. See Thorslev's essay in _Romantic and Victorian: Studies in Memory of William H. Marshall_.) Tracing this development of Blake's thought, Cox illuminates Blake's poems, particularly the late poems, in new and important ways. Rising to his subject, Cox proves to be a scrupulous logician himself and a handsome prose stylist. Cox may be familiar to some, as I came to know him, for his other noteworthy work on Blake, which can be found in the journal _Criticism_, Don Ault's collection _Critical Paths: Blake and the Argument of Method_, and Syndy Conger's collection _Sensibility in Transformation_. _Love and Logic_ deserves serious attention by Blake scholars, literary historians, and readers with an interest in Blake's poetics.