The Divine Vision: Studies in the Poetry and Art of William Blake, Born November 28th, 1757V. Gollancz, 1957 - 216 pages |
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Page 29
... Head , And empty Dreams on ev'ry Leaf are spread.2 1 Dissertation . 2 Compare also ' Once a dream did weave a Shade O'er my angel - guarded head . ' It is therefore entirely appropriate that Lyca should invoke sleep 29 THE LITTLE GIRL ...
... Head , And empty Dreams on ev'ry Leaf are spread.2 1 Dissertation . 2 Compare also ' Once a dream did weave a Shade O'er my angel - guarded head . ' It is therefore entirely appropriate that Lyca should invoke sleep 29 THE LITTLE GIRL ...
Page 72
... head . 2 Sleep , my babe ; thy food and rai- ment , House and home thy friends pro- vide , All without thy care or payment , All thy wants are well supply'd . 3 How much better thou'rt attended Than the Son of God could be , When from ...
... head . 2 Sleep , my babe ; thy food and rai- ment , House and home thy friends pro- vide , All without thy care or payment , All thy wants are well supply'd . 3 How much better thou'rt attended Than the Son of God could be , When from ...
Page 74
... head . ' Head ' in this connection is a rime word in both opening stanzas . Angels are called upon to guard Watts's child and the Angel Sleep to hover over Blake's . In both poems the human child is compared with the Christ - child . In ...
... head . ' Head ' in this connection is a rime word in both opening stanzas . Angels are called upon to guard Watts's child and the Angel Sleep to hover over Blake's . In both poems the human child is compared with the Christ - child . In ...
Contents
Epitaph for William Blake | xv |
William Blake Isaac Watts and Mrs Barbauld | 65 |
Blake and Milton | 89 |
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Adam angels appears Barbauld Beulah Blake's poem body Book Book of Urizen Brimha called cave Chapter child Christ Christian colour compass Daughters of Albion death deism descend described divine drawings earth engraving epic Erdman essay eternal fall fallen Felpham female figure fluxions Foster Damon Four Zoas frontispiece to Europe Gates Geoffrey Keynes Hades Heaven and Hell hence Hindu creation Holy human Hymn illustrated imaginative Innocence intellect Isaac Watts Jerusalem Jesus Keynes lapsed soul lines Little Girl Lost London Luvah Lyca Lyca's man's Marriage of Heaven Milton moral Motte's picture natural religion Newton Newtonian Northrop Frye Ololon Oothoon Palamabron passage Persephone plate Plotinus poet poetry Porphyry Principia prophetic Prose Rintrah Satan sleep Songs of Experience spirit symbolic Taylor thee Thel theme tion tradition tree Ulro Urizen Vala vision Watts Watts's Whereas Motte William Blake William Blake Courtesy word Young's Night Thoughts