title: Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
author:  Northrop Frye 
description: "A magnificent, extraordinary book. . . . Several great poets have written of Blake, but this book is the first to show the full magnitude of Blake's mind." (<i>The Spectator</i>)
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  Fearful
  Symmetry
  A Study of
  WILLIAM
  BLAKE
  By
  Northrop Frye
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  FEARFUL SYMMETRY
  A STUDY OF WILLIAM BLAKE
  
  Digitized by the Internet Archive
  in 2012
  http://archive.org/details/fearfulsymmetrysOOfrye
  
  F'EAKFV'h
  SYMMETRY
  A STUDY OF
  WILLIAM BLAKE
  BY NORTHROP FRYE
  PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
  PRESS
  
  COPYRIGHT © 1947 BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
  SECOND PRINTING,
  1949
  PAPERBACK EDITION, THIRD PRINTING,
  1958
  PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  
  TO
  DR. PELHAM EDGAR
  
  CONTENTS
  PART ONE
  THE ARGUMENT
  1.
  THE CASE AGAINST LOCKE
  3
  2.
  THE RISING GOD
  30
  3.
  BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
  55
  4.
  A LITERALIST OF THE IMAGINATION
  85
  5.
  THE WORD WITHIN THE WORD
  108
  PART TWO
  . THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYMBOLISM
  6.
  TRADITION AND EXPERIMENT
  147
  7.
  THE THIEF OF FIRE
  187
  8.
  THE REFINER IN FIRE
  227
  9.
  THE NIGHTMARE WITH HER NINEFOLD
  269
  PART THREE
  . THE FINAL SYNTHESIS
  10.
  COMUS AGONISTES
  313
  11.
  THE CITY OF GOD
  356
  12.
  THE BURDEN OF THE VALLEY OF VISION
  404
  GENERAL NOTE:
  BLAKE'S MYSTICISM
  43
  NOTES ON