The Books I

The books

• Tiriel (c. 1789)
• Tiriel was not an illuminated book, but the first that Blake
• wrote.
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• The Book of Thel (c. 1789)
• There are a lot of posts on this subject.
• Thel , in the Vales of Har (Heaven?) contemplates how it would be to go down into the world.
• She sees herself succesively as worm, a lilly, and a cloud (and what else?) and of course death; she doesn't want it; she draws back to Har.
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• America a Prophecy (1793)

Blake wrote this book soon after the American Revolution.

Urizen

Urizen functions as the terribly
frightened King of England, to be
revolted against











Europe a Prophecy (1794)

This one was virtually a sequel of the last one.

The picture shows Orc who is most familiar with blood, which spread over Europe after the American Revolution

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Europe 15

A few descriptive words and an impressive Image!