By Iris Murdoch
A sparklingly profound novel concerning the clash among love and loyalty
The quiet lifetime of schoolmaster invoice Mor and his spouse Nan is disturbed while a tender girl, Rain Carter, arrives on the tuition to color the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to go into politics, turns into conscious of new wants. a fancy conflict develops, concerning love, guilt, magic, artwork, and political ambition. Mor's teenage young children and their mom struggle discreetly and ruthlessly opposed to the invader. the pinnacle, himself dissatisfied, advises Mor to grab the woman and run. the ultimate choice rests with Rain. Can a "great love" be bought at too excessive a value?
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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.