ABSTRACT
We are presented with the power of the poet’s vision in William Blake’s ‘Letter to Thomas Butts’ (1977). Penned nearly two centuries ago, long before postmodernist theorists alerted us to the conceptual constraints of a scientized culture, Blake pointed to what had already faded into transparency for most: the marginalizing of diverse modes of thinking by the singular logic of a mathematized science. Blake drew on art and poetry as he sought to arouse the numbed perceptions of his contemporaries, appealing to artistic-aesthetic awarenesses that had been eclipsed by a growing devotion to a monological thinking.
