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.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

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