‘The Sciences of Life’: Living Form in William Blake and Aldous Huxley
Romanticism April 1, 2009 Nicholas Morrow Williams 4 citations
Of all the genealogies of Romantic phrases or ideas, perhaps none interests today’s students more than the line of descent by which a gnomic statement from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (‘If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite’) becomes the title of Aldous Huxley’s 1954 exploration of psychedelic drug use, The Doors of...