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" Unchangeably. Fable or Allegory is Form'd by the daughters of Memory. Imagination is surrounded by the daughters of Inspiration, who in the aggregate are call'd Jerusalem. "
The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical - Page 393
by William Blake - 1893
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Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus": With Selections from His Poems and ...

Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - Artists - 1863 - 366 pages
...reasoning memory. Living form is eternal existence. Gothic is living form. A VISION OF THE LAST JUDGMENT. THE Last Judgment is not fable, or allegory, but vision....aggregate, are called Jerusalem. Fable is allegory, but what critics call the fable is vision itself. The Hebrew Bible and the Gospel of Jesus are not allegory,...
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The Poetical Works of William Blake: Lyrical and Miscellaneous

William Blake - 1890 - 382 pages
...Continent, whose history preceded that of the Hebrews, and in whose sleep, or chaos, creation began. . . . Imagination is surrounded by the Daughters of Inspiration, who, in the aggregate, are called Jerusalem." A few words of farther characterization may be borrowed from Mr. Swinburne. " The enormous Jerusalem...
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The Poetical Works of William Blake: Lyrical and Miscellaneous

William Blake - English poetry - 1893 - 416 pages
...Continent, whose history preceded that of the Hebrews, and in whose sleep, or chaos, creation began. . . . Imagination is surrounded by the Daughters of Inspiration, who, in the aggregate, are called Jerusalem." A few words of further characterization may be borrowed from Mr. Swinburne. " The enormous Jerusalem...
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The Real Blake: A Portrait Biography

Edwin John Ellis - 1907 - 500 pages
...Jacob's Dream. CHAPTEE XXVII BLAKE'S SECOND ACCOUNT OF HIS ' LAST JUDGMENT PICTURE, FOR THE YEAR 1810 l THE Last Judgment is not fable or allegory, but Vision....itself. Fable or allegory is seldom without some vision. Pilgrim's Progress is full of it The Greek poets the same. But allegory and vision ought to be known...
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The Real Blake: A Portrait Biography

Edwin John Ellis - 1907 - 542 pages
...Jacob's Dream. CHAPTER XXVII BLAKE'S SECOND ACCOUNT OF HIS ' LAST JUDGMENT PICTURE, FOB THE YEAR 1810 i THE Last Judgment is not fable or allegory, but Vision....itself. Fable or allegory is seldom without some vision. Pilgrim's Progress is full of it. The Greek poets the same. But allegory and vision ought to be known...
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The Real Blake: A Portrait Biography

Edwin John Ellis - 1907 - 502 pages
...PICTURE, FOR THE YEAR 1810 ' THE Last Judgment is not fable or allegory, but Vision. Fable or allegory i« a totally distinct and inferior kind of poetry. Vision,...itself. Fable or allegory is seldom without some vision. Pilgrim's Program is full of it. The Greek poets the aame. But allegory and vision ought to be known...
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The Real Blake: A Portrait Biography

Edwin John Ellis - Artists - 1907 - 500 pages
...PICTURE, FOR THE YEAR 1810 l THE Last Judgment is not fable or allegory, but Vision. Fable or allegory ig a totally distinct and inferior kind of poetry. Vision,...itself. Fable or allegory is seldom without some vision. Pilgrim's Progress is full of it. The Greek poets the same. But allegory and vision ought to be known...
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William Blake

Arthur Symons - Artists - 1907 - 470 pages
...none of the ' daughters of Memory,' but itself vision or inspiration. He wrote in the MS. book : ' Vision or imagination is a representation of what...or allegory is formed by the daughters of Memory.' And thus in the designs which accompany the text of his Prophetic Books there is rarely the mere illustration...
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William Blake, Poet and Mystic

Pierre Berger - Art and literature - 1914 - 444 pages
...that he attempts to distinguish between allegory and his own visions. " Fable or allegory," he says, " is a totally distinct and inferior kind of poetry....Imagination is surrounded by the daughters of Inspiration. . . . The Greeks represent Chronos, or Time, as a very aged man. This is fable ; but the real vision...
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The Collected Works of Arthur Symons, Volume 4

Arthur Symons - 1924 - 176 pages
...none of the 80 " daughters of Memory," but itself vision or inspiration. He wrote in the MS. book : " Vision or imagination is a representation of what...or allegory is formed by the daughters of Memory." And thus in the designs which accompany the text of his Prophetic Books there is rarely the mere illustration...
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