SOURCE: "The Rhetoric of Fear and of Hope," in Triquarterly, Vol. 11, Winter, 1968, pp. 109-23.
In the following essay, Hagstrum analyzes the philosophical positions on the nature of fear and hope advanced by Samuel Johnson and William Blake.
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