SOURCE: Milosz, Czeslaw. “Dostoevsky and Swedenborg.” Slavic Review 34, no. 2 (June 1975): 302-18.
In the following excerpt, Milosz explores two twentieth-century interpretations of Swedenborg—the psychological portraits by Karl Jaspers and Paul Valéry—and compares them with William Blake's approach, which characterized Swedenborg's writings as supreme works of the imagination.
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