William Blake, His Philosophy and SymbolsPeter Smith, 1958 - 487 pages |
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... poetry , not the fundamental ideas . Probably only one in a thousand understands Dante's Paradise ; the rest see nothing but the outward aspects of the images , never suspecting that they are only symbols of something very different ...
... poetry , not the fundamental ideas . Probably only one in a thousand understands Dante's Paradise ; the rest see nothing but the outward aspects of the images , never suspecting that they are only symbols of something very different ...
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... poet , nor any word that describes what we call poetry . The case is , that the word prophet , to which later times have affixed a new idea , was the Bible word for poet , and the word prophesying meant the art of making poetry . It ...
... poet , nor any word that describes what we call poetry . The case is , that the word prophet , to which later times have affixed a new idea , was the Bible word for poet , and the word prophesying meant the art of making poetry . It ...
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... Poetry can exist without Analysis ( Reason ) ; but Reason without Imagination ( Poetry ) is a sleep which is nearly death . Los's function in the chaos is to snare all the horrors ; for as the God of Time , he can bind them into ...
... Poetry can exist without Analysis ( Reason ) ; but Reason without Imagination ( Poetry ) is a sleep which is nearly death . Los's function in the chaos is to snare all the horrors ; for as the God of Time , he can bind them into ...
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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