‘Father, father, where are you going?': Epicurean Deism and Absent Fathers in Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience

This article explores the connection between the absent deity of Epicurean Deism and the father figure in Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789-1794). The absent, elusive or indifferent God - which I trace back to Epicurean theology and its theory of atoms - plays out in Blake'...

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Main Author: Codsi, Stephanie (Author)
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Published: Oxford University Press [2019]
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 357-375
IxTheo Classification:NBC Doctrine of God
TJ Modern history
VA Philosophy
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