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... Four Zoas In the much enlarged and complicated epic - prophetic- novelistic form of The Four Zoas , we arrive at the centrality and dominance of Los only after a preparatory history of the fall into error , confusion , incompatible ...
... Four Zoas In the much enlarged and complicated epic - prophetic- novelistic form of The Four Zoas , we arrive at the centrality and dominance of Los only after a preparatory history of the fall into error , confusion , incompatible ...
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... Four Zoas occurs within the body of Al- bion , the universal man , who is identified with the world as Eden . His fall from this identity is thus the fall of the cos- mos - the fall of Eden from human form into the sea of time and space ...
... Four Zoas occurs within the body of Al- bion , the universal man , who is identified with the world as Eden . His fall from this identity is thus the fall of the cos- mos - the fall of Eden from human form into the sea of time and space ...
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... Four Zoas . Man and Ema- nation remain in some way sexual , perhaps because Blake cannot concretely imagine a humanity that is not in some way sexual . When Jesus , having converted the family— which is Beulah - into the brotherhood of ...
... Four Zoas . Man and Ema- nation remain in some way sexual , perhaps because Blake cannot concretely imagine a humanity that is not in some way sexual . When Jesus , having converted the family— which is Beulah - into the brotherhood of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Poetic Genius and Mental Fight | 20 |
Los in the Lambeth Prophecies | 49 |
Copyright | |
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Adam Albion angel apocalypse appears awakening Bard's Song becomes begins Beulah birth Blake's Blake's myth Blake's poetry body Book of Los Book of Urizen bosom Bromion brotherhood Christ Christian conversion created creation Daughters death demiurge desire devil Divine Vision division earth Emanation energy Enion Enithar Enitharmon erotic error Eternal fall fallen world female babe figure fire Four Zoas Golgonooza Gospel Heaven and Hell Hephaestus Holy human form identified identity imagination infinite Jehovah Jerusalem Jesus Los's Luvah male babe Marriage Marriage of Heaven Mental Fight Mental Traveller Milton nature Night VII Ololon Oothoon Orc's pagan Palamabron Paradise Lost pity poet poet-prophet Poetic Genius prolific prophecies prophetic redeemed Religion revealed Rintrah Satan seems Selfhood serpent sexual Shadow Song of Los soul Spectre Spectre of Urthona Tharmas Theotormon tion Tractates turning back Ulro universe Urthona Vala visionary whole Woman Old womb wrath