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Visions of the Daughters of Albion is a 1793 poem by William Blake, produced as a book with his own illustrations. It is a short and early example of his prophetic books, and a sequel of sorts to The Book of Thel. Frontispiece to William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793), which contains Blake's critique of Abrahamic values of ...
Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) The Book of Urizen (1794) The Book of Ahania (1795) The Book of Los (1795) The Song of Los (1795) Vala, or The Four Zoas (begun 1797, unfinished; abandoned c. 1804) Milton: A Poem in Two Books (1804–1810) Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804–1820)
The Sons of Albion feature in the poem Jerusalem. They are 12, and are named as Hand, Hyle, Coban, Guantok, Peachey, Brereton, Slayd, Hutton, Scofield, Kox, Kotope, Bowen. These names are mostly drawn from figures from Blake's 1803 sedition trial. [3] The Daughters of Albion feature in Visions of the Daughters of Albion, and other prophetic books.
The fall of Albion and his division into the Zoas and their emanations are also the central themes of Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion. Rintrah first appears in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, personifying revolutionary wrath. He is later grouped together with other spirits of rebellion in the Visions of the Daughters of Albion:
Relief etching with monotyped color from Visions of the Daughters of Albion, copy G, object 3, 1795 Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Oothoon & the Nymph-Marigold. Relief etching with monotyped color from Visions of the Daughters of Albion, copy O, object 3, c. 1818 British Museum: Nebuchadnezzar.
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The vision within the poem, along with some of the other prophecies, is of a world filled with suffering in a manner that is connected to the politics of 1790s Britain. [ 21 ] God in The Ancient of Days is a " nous " figure, a creative principle in the universe that establishes mathematical order and permanence that allows life to keep from ...
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