{"id":53176,"date":"2016-10-20T07:45:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T07:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53176"},"modified":"2016-10-20T07:45:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T07:45:52","slug":"doublequoting-blake-on-guinea-and-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53176","title":{"rendered":"DoubleQuoting Blake on Guinea and Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; an appendix to <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53153\">The importance of Albrecht D\u00fcrer<\/a> ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>On two separate occasions <strong>Blake <\/strong>compares a guinea (a coin worth one pound and one shilling) and the sun:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BlakeTo-the-eyes-of-a-miser.jpg\" alt=\"blaketo-the-eyes-of-a-miser\" width=\"425\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BlakeTo-the-eyes-of-a-miser.jpg 425w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BlakeTo-the-eyes-of-a-miser-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the quote above, we see things as they appear &#8220;to the eyes of a miser&#8221;, while in that below, we see them through the eyes of the Poet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Blake-When-the-sun-rises.jpg\" alt=\"blake-when-the-sun-rises\" width=\"425\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Blake-When-the-sun-rises.jpg 425w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Blake-When-the-sun-rises-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blake continues that second quote, by saying &#8220;I question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would Question a Window concerning a Sight: I look thro it &#038; not with it.&#8221; Hence my distinguishing between &#8220;as they appear&#8221; in the miser&#8217;s eyes and &#8220;through&#8221; the poet&#8217;s eyes..<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The two quotes, taken together, freshly demonstrate the gulf between the two views so forcefully expressed in the second &#8212; the topic of my earlier post, <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53153\">The importance of Albrecht D\u00fcrer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; an appendix to The importance of Albrecht D\u00fcrer ] . On two separate occasions Blake compares a guinea (a coin worth one pound and one shilling) and the sun: In the quote above, we see things as they appear &#8220;to the eyes of a miser&#8221;, while in that below, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,385,526,627,741,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-history","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-poetry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53216,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53176\/revisions\/53216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}