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Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
work by Blake
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discussed in biography
- In William Blake: Blake as a poet
…but never published), Milton, and Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion. In them, his myth expands, adding to Urizen (reason) and Los (imagination) the Zoas Tharmas and Luvah. (The word zoa is a Greek plural meaning “living creatures.”) Their primordial harmony is destroyed when each of them attempts to…
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place in English literature
- In English literature: Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge
…narratives of Milton (1804–08) and Jerusalem (1804–20). Here, still using his own mythological characters, he portrayed the imaginative artist as the hero of society and suggested the possibility of redemption from the fallen (or Urizenic) condition.
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