William Blake, his philosophy and symbolsP. Smith, 1958 - 487 pages |
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Page 8
... picture is surely a record : the Crucifixion in the Jerusalem , a Crucifixion which , for its feeling , ranks among the greatest ever executed . The night is completely black , in spite of a faint thread of light on the horizon . Hardly ...
... picture is surely a record : the Crucifixion in the Jerusalem , a Crucifixion which , for its feeling , ranks among the greatest ever executed . The night is completely black , in spite of a faint thread of light on the horizon . Hardly ...
Page 218
... picture for three hundred guineas ( some say five hundred ) , conveniently forgot the extra forty.1 Blake's picture , which he engraved in spite of Stothard's success , is not exactly an illustration , but its symbolism may be discussed ...
... picture for three hundred guineas ( some say five hundred ) , conveniently forgot the extra forty.1 Blake's picture , which he engraved in spite of Stothard's success , is not exactly an illustration , but its symbolism may be discussed ...
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... pictures . He drew it from a vision which persistently hovered over the top of his staircase at Lam- beth . On his death - bed he coloured a copy of it in the excitement of ecstasy , abandoning it only to draw a picture of his wife ...
... pictures . He drew it from a vision which persistently hovered over the top of his staircase at Lam- beth . On his death - bed he coloured a copy of it in the excitement of ecstasy , abandoning it only to draw a picture of his wife ...
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