William Blake, his philosophy and symbolsP. Smith, 1958 - 487 pages |
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Page 61
... 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 ...
Page 118
... 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 ...
Page 307
... poetry and painting in a degraded state . Har is the Poetic Genius , as lines 90-100 prove , when compared with the 7th Principle of All Religions are One : the True Man is the source , he being the Poetic Genius . ' Since he receives ...
... poetry and painting in a degraded state . Har is the Poetic Genius , as lines 90-100 prove , when compared with the 7th Principle of All Religions are One : the True Man is the source , he being the Poetic Genius . ' Since he receives ...
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