Portland State University PDXScholar Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses 11-19-1992 How Gothic Influences and Eidetic Imagery in Eight Color Plates and Key Poems by William Blake Figuratively Unite Body and Soul by Dramatizing the Visionary Imagination Honor Penelope Vallor Portland State University Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Vallor, Honor Penelope, "How Gothic Influences and Eidetic Imagery in Eight Color Plates and Key Poems by William Blake Figuratively Unite Body and Soul by Dramatizing the Visionary Imagination" (1992). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 4659. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.6543 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible:
[email protected]. AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Honor Penelope Vallor for the Master of Arts in English presented November 19, 1992. Title: How Gothic Influences and Eidetic Imagery in Eight Color Plates and Key Poems by William Blake Figuratively Unite Body and Soul by Dramatizing the Visionary Imagination. APPROVED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE THESIS COMMITTEE: Hay P~ Mariels, Chair Carl Markgraf Deeanne Westbrook Anthony ~ Johnc/,/ 'L. Hammond A study of Gothic influences and eidetic imagery evident in eight Blake color plates to demonstrate that, 2 when interpreted together with key Blake poems, unity of body and soul can be accomplished by means of the visionary imagination.