Jackson's Dilemma by Iris Murdoch

By Iris Murdoch

At the eve in their marriage ceremony, Edward Lannion and Marian Berran are led away onto darkish and weird paths, whereas their acquaintances and enthusiasts are compelled to make new and outstanding offerings.

Watching over them all is Jackson, a mysterious and charismatic manservant who, in guiding all of the younger fanatics into the sunshine, has to make his personal agonizing judgements.

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Some saw beauty in the designs, but none claimed to understand the texts. T. Smith’s comment of 1828 that ‘his later poetry, if it may be so called, attached to his plates, …was not always wholly uninteresting’ (No. 15c). In 1839 Garth Wilkinson was able to see ‘some glimmer of meaning’ in Thel, though he thought it showed strains of the madness which marked Blake’s other verse (No. 10). The anonymous critic in the London University Magazine (1830) found the illuminations of Thel ‘charming’ and ‘fairy-like’ and the ‘beautiful whole’ a ‘fanciful production of a rich imagination’ (No.

Phillips, eds, William Blake: Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1973), pp. 310–48. Omitting, however, most of the separate plates designed by others but engraved by Blake. Graham Robertson, whose collection was separately catalogued (1952) and sold at Christie’s on 22 July 1949. Collins Baker, Catalogue of William Blake’s Drawings and Paintings in the Huntington Library (1938; rev. Butlin, William Blake (1757–1827): A Catalogue of the Works of William Blake in the Tate Gallery (1957, rev.

26 Note on the Text The great majority of the references to Blake here are repeated, by permission, from Blake Records (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969), where they are organized by date.

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