ABSTRACT
It is not surprising that visitors to Blake’s cosmology – the most elaborate in the history of British text and design – often demand a map in the form of a reference book. The entries in this volume benefit from the wide range of historical information made available in recent decades regarding the relationship between Blake’s text and design and his biographical, political, social, and religious contexts. Of particular importance, the entries take account of the re-interpretations of Blake with respect to race, gender, and empire in scholarship influenced by the groundbreaking theories that have arisen since the first half of the twentieth century. The intricate fluidity of Blake’s anti-Newtonian universe eludes the fixity of definitions and schema. Central to this guide to Blake's work and ideas is Kathryn S. Freeman's acknowledgment of the paradox of providing orientation in Blake’s universe without disrupting its inherent disorientation of the traditions whereby readers still come to it. In this innovative work, Freeman aligns herself with Blake’s demand that we play an active role in challenging our own readerly habits of passivity as we experience his created and corporeal worlds.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |217 pages
Entries
entry 1|2 pages
Abolition
entry 2|3 pages
Abraham and Isaac
entry 3|2 pages
Adam
entry 4|2 pages
Ahania
entry 5|3 pages
Albion
entry 6|1 pages
All Religions Are One
entry 7|2 pages
Allegory; the abstract
entry 8|3 pages
America: A Prophecy
entry 9|3 pages
“Ancient of Days”
entry 10|2 pages
The Ancients
entry 11|2 pages
“The Angel”; angels
entry 12|4 pages
Art; design; Golgonooza
entry 13|2 pages
Atheism
entry 14|1 pages
“Auguries of Innocence”
entry 15|1 pages
Bacon, Sir Francis (1561–1626)
entry 16|1 pages
Basire, James (1730–1802)
entry 17|2 pages
Beauty
entry 18|1 pages
Berkeley, George (1685–1753)
entry 19|3 pages
Beulah
entry 20|2 pages
Bhagavad Gita
entry 21|2 pages
Bible; “Bible of Hell”
entry 22|2 pages
Blair’s The Grave [illustrations]
entry 23|2 pages
Blake, Catherine (1762–1831)
entry 24|2 pages
Blake, Robert (1762–87)
entry 25|2 pages
“Blind-Man’s Buff”
entry 26|2 pages
“The Blossom”
entry 27|2 pages
Boehme, Jakob (1575–1624)
entry 28|3 pages
The Book of Ahania
entry 29|1 pages
The Book of Enoch [illustrations]
entry 30|2 pages
The Book of Job [illustrations]
entry 31|2 pages
The Book of Los
entry 32|4 pages
The Book of Thel
entry 33|2 pages
The Book of Urizen
entry 34|2 pages
Brahma
entry 35|2 pages
Bromion
entry 36|3 pages
Burke, Edmund (1729–97)
entry 37|2 pages
Butts, Thomas (1757–1845)
entry 38|2 pages
The Canterbury Pilgrims
entry 39|1 pages
Cave
entry 40|4 pages
Center
entry 41|2 pages
Child; childhood
entry 42|2 pages
“The Chimney Sweeper”
entry 43|2 pages
Christianity; church
entry 44|1 pages
“The Clod and the Pebble”
entry 45|2 pages
Cloud
entry 46|1 pages
Continental Prophecies
entry 47|3 pages
Contraries; binaries; dualism and nondualism
entry 48|2 pages
“The Couch of Death”
entry 49|2 pages
Council of God
entry 50|3 pages
Covering Cherub
entry 51|2 pages
“A Cradle Song”
entry 52|2 pages
Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770–1812)
entry 53|2 pages
“The Crystal Cabinet”
entry 54|1 pages
Cumberland, George (1754–1848)
entry 55|3 pages
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), The Divine Comedy [illustrations]
entry 56|2 pages
Darwin, Erasmus (1731–1802), The Botanic Garden [illustrations]
entry 57|2 pages
Deism
entry 58|2 pages
A Descriptive Catalogue
entry 59|3 pages
Dissent; enthusiasm
entry 60|2 pages
“A Divine Image”
entry 61|2 pages
“The Divine Image”
entry 62|2 pages
“A Dream”
entry 63|2 pages
Druid
entry 64|2 pages
“Earth’s Answer”
entry 65|2 pages
“The Ecchoing Green”
entry 66|2 pages
Eden
entry 67|2 pages
Edom
entry 68|2 pages
Energy
entry 69|2 pages
Engraving; illuminated printing; relief etching
entry 70|2 pages
Enitharmon
entry 71|2 pages
Eno
entry 72|2 pages
Eternity; “Eternity”
entry 73|2 pages
Europe: A Prophecy
entry 74|1 pages
The Everlasting Gospel
entry 75|2 pages
“Fair Elenor”
entry 76|2 pages
Felpham
entry 77|3 pages
Female; Emanation
entry 78|3 pages
Flaxman, John and Ann
entry 79|2 pages
The French Revolution
entry 80|1 pages
“Fresh from the Dewy Hill” (“Song”)
entry 81|1 pages
Fuseli, Henry (1741–1825)
entry 82|2 pages
Fuzon
entry 83|2 pages
Gate imagery
entry 84|2 pages
The Gates of Paradise (For Children); The Gates of Paradise (For the Sexes)
entry 85|2 pages
Generation
entry 86|2 pages
The Ghost of Abel
entry 87|2 pages
God; deity; the devine
entry 88|2 pages
Gothic
entry 89|3 pages
Gray, Thomas (1716–71)
entry 90|2 pages
Gwin, King of Norway
entry 91|2 pages
Hand; Hyle; Coban
entry 92|3 pages
Har
entry 93|2 pages
Hayley, William (1745–1820)
entry 94|2 pages
“The Human Abstract”
entry 95|2 pages
Imagination
entry 96|3 pages
Innocence
entry 97|2 pages
Introduction to Songs of Innocence
entry 98|2 pages
Introduction to Songs of Experience
entry 99|2 pages
An Island in the Moon
entry 100|2 pages
Jerusalem [figure]
entry 101|3 pages
Jerusalem
entry 102|2 pages
Jesus
entry 103|2 pages
Johnson, Joseph (1738–1809)
entry 104|2 pages
King Edward the Third
entry 105|2 pages
Lambeth; the Lambeth Prophecies
entry 106|3 pages
Language; text; song; voice
entry 107|3 pages
Laocoön [{yah} and his two sons, Satan and Adam]
entry 108|2 pages
Lavater, Johann Caspar (1741–1802)
entry 109|2 pages
Linnell, John (1792–1882)
entry 110|3 pages
“The Little Black Boy”
entry 111|2 pages
“The Little Girl Lost”; “The Little Girl Found”
entry 112|2 pages
Locke, John (1632–1704)
entry 113|2 pages
“London”
entry 114|3 pages
Loom; weaving; garment
entry 115|3 pages
Los; Urthona
entry 116|2 pages
Luvah; love
entry 117|2 pages
Lyca
entry 118|2 pages
Madness; “Mad Song”
entry 119|3 pages
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
entry 120|2 pages
“Mary”
entry 121|2 pages
Mathew circle
entry 122|1 pages
Millenarianism
entry 123|4 pages
Milton
entry 124|1 pages
Milton, John (1608–74)
entry 125|1 pages
“My Pretty Rose Tree”; “Ah! Sun-flower”; “The Lilly”
entry 126|3 pages
Newton, Sir Isaac (1643–1727)
entry 127|1 pages
Notebook
entry 128|2 pages
Ololon
entry 129|2 pages
On Homer’s Poetry; On Virgil
entry 130|4 pages
Oothoon
entry 131|2 pages
Orc
entry 132|2 pages
Paine, Thomas (1737–1809)
entry 133|1 pages
Palamabron; Elynittria
entry 134|2 pages
Palmer, Samuel (1805–81)
entry 135|2 pages
The Pickering Manuscript
entry 136|2 pages
Platonism; Paracelsus; Plotinus
entry 137|2 pages
Poetic Genius
entry 138|2 pages
Poetical Sketches
entry 139|1 pages
“A Poison Tree”
entry 140|1 pages
Polypus
entry 141|2 pages
Prophecy; Prophetic Books
entry 142|2 pages
Rahab; Tirzah
entry 143|2 pages
Reason
entry 144|2 pages
Reuben
entry 145|2 pages
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–92)
entry 146|1 pages
Rintrah
entry 147|1 pages
Robinson, Henry Crabb (1775–1867)
entry 148|2 pages
Royal Academy
entry 149|3 pages
Satan; serpent; devil
entry 150|2 pages
Scolfield, John
entry 151|2 pages
Self-annihilation; selfhood; states
entry 152|4 pages
Sexuality; eros; androgyny; Leutha
entry 153|2 pages
The Song of Los
entry 154|1 pages
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
entry 155|2 pages
Space and time; vortex
entry 156|2 pages
Spectre
entry 157|2 pages
Spurzheim, J. G. (1776–1832); Cowper, William (1731–1800)
entry 158|1 pages
Stedman, John Gabriel (1744–97)
entry 159|1 pages
Stothard, Thomas (1755–1834)
entry 160|3 pages
Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688–1772)
entry 161|1 pages
Tatham, Frederick (1805–1878)
entry 162|2 pages
Tharmas; Enion
entry 163|2 pages
Thel
entry 164|1 pages
Theotormon
entry 165|2 pages
There Is No Natural Religion
entry 166|2 pages
Tiriel
entry 167|1 pages
“To Nobodaddy”
entry 168|1 pages
“To the Public”
entry 169|2 pages
Trusler, John (1735–1820)
entry 170|1 pages
Ulro
entry 171|2 pages
Urizen books
entry 172|2 pages
Urizen
entry 173|3 pages
Vala; Vala, or The Four Zoas; veil
entry 174|2 pages
Varley, John (1778–1842); Visionary Heads
entry 175|2 pages
Vision
entry 176|2 pages
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
entry 177|2 pages
Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
entry 178|2 pages
War
entry 179|2 pages
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759–97)
entry 180|2 pages
Wordsworth, William (1770–1850)
entry 181|2 pages
Zoas