Blake Intro to Europe a Prophecy
Channel: Roger Lewis
Date: 2017-04-20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His so-called prophetic works were said by 20th century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".[2] His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".[3] In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.[4] Although he lived in London his entire life (except for three years spent in Felpham),[5] he produced a diverse and symbolically rich œuvre, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God"[6] or "human existence itself".[7]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake%27s_mythology

The longest elaboration of this private myth-cycle was also his longest poem, The Four Zoas: The Death and Judgment of Albion The Ancient Man, written in the late 1790s but left in manuscript form at the time of his death. In this work, Blake traces the fall of Albion, who was "originally fourfold but was self-divided".[1] This theme was revisited later, more definitively but perhaps less directly, in his other epic prophetic works, Milton a Poem and Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion.

The parts into which Albion is divided are the four Zoas:

Tharmas: representing instinct and strength.

Urizen: reason, tradition; a cruel god resembling the Gnostic Demiurge.

Luvah: love, passion and emotive faculties; a Christ-like figure, also known as Orc in his most amorous and rebellious form.

Urthona, also known as Los: inspiration and the imagination.
The Blake pantheon also includes feminine emanations that have separated from an integrated male being, as Eve separated from Adam:

The maternal Enion is an emanation from Tharmas.

The celestial Ahania is an emanation from Urizen.



The seductive Vala is an emanation from Luvah.

The musical Enitharmon is an emanation from Los (Urthona).
The fall of Albion and his division into the Zoas and their emanations are also the central themes of Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion.

Rintrah first appears in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, personifying revolutionary wrath. He is later grouped together with other spirits of rebellion in The Vision of the Daughters of Albion:

The loud and lustful Bromion.

The "mild and piteous" Palamabron, son of Enitharmon and Los (also appears in Milton).
The tortured mercenary Theotormon.

http://www.blakearchive.org/copy/europe.k?descId=europe.k.illbk.09

Reading By Roger Lewis.

"My first and lasting reaction to your poems was, Wonderful. Here is a poet who can engage with the pressing and vital concerns of our times. As did Blake in his time. While others were still trilling away about rural idylls and flute playing shepherds Blake took those forms and images and confronted the brutalities of his age with an art renewed. In his own way, Roger is doing the same."

David Malone, Film Maker Author and writer of the Golem xiv blog

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