Abstract
Abstract This paper explores William Blake’s reception in the work of the twentieth-century monastic writer Thomas Merton. The paper explores the way Blakean proverbs function in Merton’s work as a model of social critique. Following Blake, Merton came to see “wisdom” as a kind of subtraction: not an addition of meaning but a corrosive acid that burns away the falsehoods and illusions of social and religious norms, allowing an authentic spiritual vision to emerge.
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