William Blake, his philosophy and symbolsP. Smith, 1958 - 487 pages |
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Page 44
... meaning of The Tyger . Lines occur , such as The starry floor , The wat'ry shore , Is giv'n thee till the break of day , which require , not only thought , but wider reading in Blake , before we know their exact meaning . ( Blake is apt ...
... meaning of The Tyger . Lines occur , such as The starry floor , The wat'ry shore , Is giv'n thee till the break of day , which require , not only thought , but wider reading in Blake , before we know their exact meaning . ( Blake is apt ...
Page 68
... meaning . These symbols remain fairly consistent throughout Blake's entire works , and they are the key to all his poems and to all the minor Pro- phetic Books . But Blake had a horror of fixed symbols ; he did not wish his works to be ...
... meaning . These symbols remain fairly consistent throughout Blake's entire works , and they are the key to all his poems and to all the minor Pro- phetic Books . But Blake had a horror of fixed symbols ; he did not wish his works to be ...
Page 82
... meaning ; then he falls into an enormous preciosity . The good and the bad alternate in the following lines : He sat down a damp cold pervaded the Nobles , and monsters of worlds unknown Swam round them , watching to be delivered - when ...
... meaning ; then he falls into an enormous preciosity . The good and the bad alternate in the following lines : He sat down a damp cold pervaded the Nobles , and monsters of worlds unknown Swam round them , watching to be delivered - when ...
Contents
THE GATES OF PARADISE | 5 |
THE NEW SYNTHESIS | 88 |
THE FIFTH WINDOW | 98 |
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Ahania Angel appears become Beulah Bible Blake body Book Book of Los Book of Urizen Bromion Chapter Church clouds Commentary copy Creation Daughters of Albion death decoration 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 woman wrath wrote