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Fearful Symmetry is a phrase from William Blake's poem "The Tyger" (Tyger, tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry? It has been used as the name of a number of other works:
17 de may. de 2012 · Fearful symmetry, a study of William Blake. by. Frye, Northrop. Publication date. 1947. Topics. Blake, William, 1757-1827. Publisher. [Princeton, N.J.] Princeton University Press.
Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake is a 1947 book by Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye whose subject is the work of English poet and visual artist William Blake.
Published in 1947, Fearful Symmetry was Northrop Frye's first book and the product of over a decade of intense labour. Drawing readers into the imaginative world of William Blake, Frye succeeded in making Blake's voice and vision intelligible to the wider public.
A poem that explores the mystery and beauty of a tiger's fearful symmetry, or perfect proportions. Blake asks questions about the creator of the tiger and the contrast between the tiger and the lamb.
Frye conducts his ambitious study with unflagging energy, great enthusiasm, and immense erudition. Random dipping into the volume would be frightening, and passages quoted out of context might well appear cabalistic. Read straight through in sequence, however, Fearful Symmetry is a lucid if exacting book.
This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any...
