William Blake: Religion and Psychology

Jerusalem , PLATE 54 (E 203) "In Great Eternity, every particular Form gives forth or Emanates Its own peculiar Light, & the Form i...

Creative and welcome criticism of the first "Picture 11" led to much further thought of the image, especially of its import in Bl...

Because Urizen (who is associated with reason) plays the villain in so much of Blake's poetry, some may have drawn the conclusion that B...

Sam Jones was the South's most famous preacher in the late nineteenth century. Jones preached one sermon that Dad really liked and put i...

If you have an interest in reading the early books about William Blake as well as what is being written about him in our own day, you will f...

The title here is Aged Ignorance and what Digby called the couplet(?) was  " In Aged Ignorance profound, Ho...

Earthbound Imagination , From the British Museum's Night Thoughts The word imagination occupies a special place in Blake's vocabular...

I haven't found this picture in the Library of Congress Collection, but you may look at it in the Blake Archive , and this may be a goo...

Illustrations to Genesis Second Title Page This Genesis Illustration is from the Huntington Library, San Mario, California. You can read mo...

Here's a poem from Songs of Experience: "I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my fo...

While working with the passage in the Four Zoas (go to page number E370) which was the basis for my two posts on Genesis, I became more aw...

This Plate is inscribed "I want! I want!" In the script for 'Gates' we have this couplet: "On the shadows of the M...

Continuation of Genesis In spite of Enitharmon's fears, Los and Enitharmon will create habitations for the Spectres of the dead. Four Z...

This one is juicy. I immediately thought of a young man defying his father; then I thought of Absalom , the archetype of such an impulse. B...

The following passage is related to the Biblical fall reported in Genesis. But Blake has different ideas about what was going on. Los and E...

Vision of Last Judgment (E 565) "Mental Things are alone Real what is Calld Corporeal Nobody Knows of its Dwelling Place is in Fallac...

The inscription reads: What are these?  Alas! the Female Martyr  Yale Center for British Art Gates of Paradise Plate 7 Is She also the Divin...

Auguries of Innocence "To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Etern...

Wikipedia Commons Gates of Paradise Plate 6     It isn't very easy to see the relationship between this picture and the accompanying tex...

We've posted on each of Blake's four major cities: London, Galgoonoza, Babylon and Jerusalem but there is more to be said. London wa...