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  2. Vala, or The Four Zoas - Wikipedia

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    The poem was retitled The Four Zoas: The torments of Love & Jealousy in The death and Judgment of Albion the Ancient Man in 1807, and this title is often used to denote a second version of the poem, the first having been completed between 1796 and 1802. The poem was written on proof engravings of Night Thoughts. The lines are surrounded by ...

  3. Albion (Blake) - Wikipedia

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    The long, unfinished poem properly called Vala, or The Four Zoas expands the significance of the Zoas, but they are integral to all of Blake's prophetic books.. Blake's painting of a naked figure raising his arms, loosely based on Vitruvian Man, is now identified as a portrayal of Albion, following the discovery of a printed version with an inscription identifying the figure. [2]

  4. William Blake's prophetic books - Wikipedia

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    Another work, Vala, or The Four Zoas (1797), begun while Blake was residing in Felpham, was abandoned in draft form; of this abandoning by Blake, Northrop Frye has commented that "[a]nyone who cares about poetry or painting must see in [Vala ' s] unfinished state a major cultural disaster". [3]

  5. William Blake's mythology - Wikipedia

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    The relationship of the four Zoas, as depicted by Blake in Milton a Poem. The longest elaboration of this private myth-cycle was also his longest poem, The Four Zoas: The Death and Judgment of Albion The Ancient Man, written in the late 1790s but left in manuscript form at the time of his death.

  6. Luvah - Wikipedia

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    The first appearance of Luvah is in The Book of Thel, but he is not mentioned again until Vala, or The Four Zoas.The history of Luvah's origins, war on Albion, and his involvement as Orc are described in Vala along with descriptions of his return to his Luvah state after the Final Judgment.

  7. Urthona - Wikipedia

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    Urthona (likely intended to imply "earth owner") [citation needed] is one of the Four Zoas and represents both the north and imagination within the individual. He is aligned with the Christian Trinity in the aspect of the Holy Ghost and is opposed to Urizen, the Zoa of reason. He is the last to be created, and his corresponding element is Earth.

  8. Orc (Blake) - Wikipedia

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    In Blake's myth, Orc is seen as the first child of Los with Enitharmon and sometimes either replaced in that position by another or not mentioned as a child at all. In the Four Zoas, the children of Los represent a just form of wrath, pity, frustrated desire and logic, which serve as an analysis of Orc's being. Orc's creation was based on the ...

  9. Vala (Blake) - Wikipedia

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    In the mythological writings of William Blake, Vala is an Emanation and the mate of Luvah, one of the four Zoas, who were created when Albion, the primordial man, was divided fourfold. She represents nature while Luvah represents emotions. Originally with Luvah, she joins with Albion and begets the Zoa Urizen. In her fallen aspect, she is the ...