discoveries in a commercial market. If Adam Smith was 
reluctant to push his view to this point of the transcendental 
imagination, Blake and the Romantics felt no qualms but 
turned literature over to the transcendental arm. Henceforth, 
literature will be at war with itself and with the social 
mechanics of conscious goals and motivations. For the matter 
of literary vision will be collective and mythic, while the forms of 
literary expression and communication will be individualist, 
segmental, and mechanical. The vision will be tribal and 
collective, the expression private and marketable. This dilemma 
continues to the present to rend the individual Western 
consciousness. Western man knows that his values and 
modalities are the product of literacy. Yet the very means of 
extending those values, technologically, seem to deny and 
reverse them. Whereas Pope fully faced up to this dilemma in 
The Dunciad , Blake and the Romantics tended to devote