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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