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William Blake's mythology. The prophetic books of the English poet and artist William Blake contain an invented mythology, in which Blake worked to encode his spiritual and political ideas into a prophecy for a new age. This desire to recreate the cosmos is the heart of his work and his psychology. His myths often described the struggle between ...
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 ...
Songs of Experience is a collection of 26 poems forming the second part of Songs of Innocence and of Experience. The poems were published in 1794 (see 1794 in poetry ). Some of the poems, such as "The Little Girl Lost" and "The Little Girl Found", were moved by Blake to Songs of Innocence and were frequently moved between the two books. [ note 1]
The title page of the book, 1790, copy D, held by the Library of Congress [ 1] The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a book by the English poet and printmaker William Blake. It is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs.
The Ghost of a Flea is a miniature painting by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake, held in the Tate Gallery, London. Measuring only 8.42 by 6.3 inches (21.4 by 16.0 centimetres), it is executed in a tempera mixture with gold, on a mahogany -type tropical hardwood panel. [ 1] It was completed between 1819 and 1820, as part of ...
In Blake's works. The mythological character of Spectre is first introduced in Blake's prophetic book Jerusalem: [6] And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. Elsewhere in Jerusalem, Blake defines it this way: "The Spectre is the Reasoning Power in Man, and when separated from Imagination and closing itself as in steel in a ...
The text of the poem was first published, with only a small portion of the accompanying illustrations, in 1893, by the Irish poet W. B. Yeats and his collaborator, the English writer and poet Edwin John Ellis, in their three-volume book The Works of William Blake. An illustration of the relationship of the four Zoas from one of Blake's other ...
William Blake: Druid Rocks with pitying figure of Jerusalem. Copy A, Plate 92, detail (British Museum). Jerusalem tells the story of the fall of Albion, Blake's embodiment of man, Britain or the western world as a whole. The poetic narrative takes the form of a "drama of the psyche", couched in the dense symbolism of Blake's self-constructed ...