Copyright 1987 by Donald Ault. All rights reserved.


First edition.

Published by Station Hill Press, in the Clinamen Studies Series, Barrytown, New
York 12507.

Grateful acknowledgement is due to the Institute for Publishing Arts, a not-
for-profit, tax-exempt organization, for production and partial financial support
of this project; and to the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency in
Washington, D.C., and the New York State Council on the Arts for continuing
support of the literary projects of Station Hill Press. Special thanks to Prof. David
V. Erdman for directing the publisher's attention to this book and for many forms
of ongoing assistance; and to the British Library, keepers of Blake's manuscript,
for the opportunity to reproduce in facsimile a dozen pages of The Four Zoas, from
photographs provided by their Manuscript Room and Photograph Services.

Designed by Susan Quasha and George Quasha. Production assistance by Richard
Gummere and Bryan McHugh.











Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ault, Donald D.
 Narrative unbound.

 Bibliography: p.
 1. Blake, William, 1757-1827. Four Zoas.
2. Blake, William, 1757-1827-Technique. 3. Narration
(Rhetoric) I. Title.
PR4144.F683A9 1987 821'.7 85-30377
ISBN 0-88268-011-0


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