William Blake, His Philosophy and SymbolsPeter Smith, 1958 - 487 pages |
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Page 212
... illustrations for works which pleased or paid him . own . His method of illustrating , like everything else he did , was quite his He often did not follow the text , but made pictorial commentaries upon it . The book became merely a ...
... illustrations for works which pleased or paid him . own . His method of illustrating , like everything else he did , was quite his He often did not follow the text , but made pictorial commentaries upon it . The book became merely a ...
Page 213
... illustrations to L'Allegro and Il Penseroso are less philo- sophic but more poetic . Blake's imagination now bubbled over with the most delightful conceits . Realizing that the pictures might seem obscure , he wisely appended brief ...
... illustrations to L'Allegro and Il Penseroso are less philo- sophic but more poetic . Blake's imagination now bubbled over with the most delightful conceits . Realizing that the pictures might seem obscure , he wisely appended brief ...
Page 215
... illustrations were more important than the text , and that another man's poem should not hinder his own deep purposes . As in his own works Blake had disregarded his text and made the pictures a series complete in itself , so now he ...
... illustrations were more important than the text , and that another man's poem should not hinder his own deep purposes . As in his own works Blake had disregarded his text and made the pictures a series complete in itself , so now he ...
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Ahania Angel appears become Beulah Bible Blake body Book Book of Los Book of Urizen Bromion Chapter clouds Commentary copy Creation Daughters of Albion death descends Divine doctrine earth Emanation engraved Enion Enitharmon error Eternity evil Experience eyes Fall false Felpham Female fire flames flesh Four Zoas Gates Hayley Heaven and Hell human illustrations Imagination Inspiration Jakob Böhme Jerusalem Jesus Last Judgment Line Luvah Marriage of Heaven material Milton Moon mystical Nature never Night nude Oothoon Palamabron Paradise passage Passion philosophy Plate poem Poet Poetic poetry Prophetic Rahab Reason religion repeated represents Revolution Rintrah Satan seems Selfhood sense serpent Shadow sleep Songs of Experience Songs of Innocence sons soul Space Spectre spirit stanza stars Swedenborg symbol Tharmas Thel Theotormon things thou thought Tiriel Tree truth Urizen Urthona Vala verse vision William Blake woman wrath wrote