Beyond the Doors of Perception: Visionary Mindscapes in William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Diálogo June 20, 2025 Alina Cojocaru
This paper explores William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience as a poetic cartography of visionary mindscapes, where perception is not merely a sensory but a divine act. Tracing key influences from Jacob Boehme’s mystical theology and drawing connections to the phenomenological aesthetics of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the theological and philosophical underpinnings of William Blake’s...