The End of Literary Theory
Stein Haugom Olsen
5 D. G. Gillham, Blake''s Contrary States. The ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience'' as Dramatic Poems (Cambridge 1966), pp. 10-1 1 . My description of Gillham ''s interpretation is not quite accurate in so far as I imply that it is based exclusively on ''internal'' evidence. No interpretation can be based exclusively on '' internal'' evidence since no consistent distinction between semantic and encyclopaedic knowledge can be drawn, and since interpretation anyway is an attempt to make ...