[Vwoolf] Blake ref. in JR?

[Libertin, Mary]

The reference is to “Visions of the Daughters of Albion,” but further understanding how the reference is used would be very complex. Is that what you  meant?

Mary Libertin


From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of "Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf" <Vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Reply-To: "Stuart N. Clarke" <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>
Date: Friday, June 29, 2018 at 6:50 AM
To: "vwoolf at lists.osu.edu" <Vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Subject: [Vwoolf] Blake ref. in JR?

Does anyone understand this ref. to Blake?  I don’t, although I have been doing  some hunting.

[12]  In contrast to Florinda's lying is Clara's honesty. "Alas, women lie! But not Clara Durrant. A flawless mind; a candid nature; a virgin chained to a rock" (123). (Clara does not "lie" in another sense too–hence her virginity–though Florinda, the lier, does.) The Blake reference recalls Virginia's writing Leonard candidly on May 1, 1912 that, when she kissed him, she felt no more than a rock
https://www.colorado.edu/gendersarchive1998-2013/1999/01/20/signing-woolf-textual-body-name

The ref. is of course (also?) to Andromeda.

Stuart
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osu.edu/pipermail/vwoolf/attachments/20180701/541e2171/attachment.html>