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... Americans . In The French Revolution Blake endeavoured to describe history as seen by the visionary ; in America he tried to describe eternity as it is symbolized by history . This book marks a new and final step in Blake's career as a ...
... Americans . In The French Revolution Blake endeavoured to describe history as seen by the visionary ; in America he tried to describe eternity as it is symbolized by history . This book marks a new and final step in Blake's career as a ...
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... America- Water ; Asia - Air ; and Africa - Fire ) are entirely Blake's , and his book yields something like a meaning ( though perhaps not Maier's ) to any one who is versed in Blake's symbols . " But this does not imply that Blake had ...
... America- Water ; Asia - Air ; and Africa - Fire ) are entirely Blake's , and his book yields something like a meaning ( though perhaps not Maier's ) to any one who is versed in Blake's symbols . " But this does not imply that Blake had ...
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... America . Swedenborg had taught him that the historical ' books in the Old Testament were ' sublime allegories ' only ; so he extended Swedenborg's teaching by practising on the theory that history itself was nothing more than symbol ...
... America . Swedenborg had taught him that the historical ' books in the Old Testament were ' sublime allegories ' only ; so he extended Swedenborg's teaching by practising on the theory that history itself was nothing more than symbol ...
Contents
THE TEMPORAL BLAKE | 13 |
IMPERISHABLE SKETCHES | 25 |
LUNAR BURLESQUE | 32 |
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Ahania America Angel appears become Beulah Bible Blake body Book Book of Los Book of Urizen Bromion Chapter Christ clouds Commentary copy Creation Daughters of Albion death decoration Divine doctrine earth Emanation engraved Enion Enitharmon error Eternity evil eyes Fall false Felpham Female fire flames flesh Four Zoas Gates Hayley Heaven and Hell human illustrations Imagination Inspiration Jakob Böhme Jerusalem Jesus Job's Last Judgment later Line Luvah Marriage of Heaven material Milton Moral mystical Nature never Night nude Oothoon Palamabron Paradise passage Passion philosophy Pity plate poem Poet Poetic Poetry Rahab Reason Religion repeated represents Revolution Rintrah Satan Selfhood sense serpent Shadow sleep Songs of Experience Songs of Innocence soul Space Spectre spirit stanza stars Swedenborg symbol Tharmas Thel Theotormon things thou thought Tiriel Tree truth Urizen Urthona Vala verse VIII vision woman wrath wrote