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- Title
BLAKE'S APPROPRIATION OF TFIE NEWTONIAN `MOMENT'.
- Authors
Jackson, M. W.
- Abstract
This article discusses use of Isaac Newton's theory in writings of poets John Milton and William Blake. Blake wrote a series of prophecies which were based on an alternate identity with time. Newton attempted to define the moment as the smallest measurement of mathematical time, but for Blake, creativity moment is not rigid and cannot be fixed by chronology or mathematical reasoning, rather it is biological and eternal. He created an organic and biological space for eternal creativity. While Milton used the word creative moment to describe the creative act.
- Subjects
CREATIVITY in literature; BLAKE, William, 1757-1827; MILTON, John, 1608-1674; NEWTON, Isaac, 1642-1727; IDENTITY (Philosophical concept); PROPHECY
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2004, Vol 51, Issue 2, p134
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/nq/51.2.134-a