Blake seeks to provide the Golden String which can lead us through the labyrinth of our experience or his own poetry.

Friday, December 30, 2022

BLAKE INDEX

If you would like easy access to an index and to the contents of Erdman's The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake copy and bookmark this link:

https://blake.lib.asu.edu/html/home.html

You may find this a convenient resource for locating and reading specific works of Blake in an accessible format.

    Jerusalem Plate 3, (E 145)

   "Reader! lover of books! lover of heaven,
    And of that God from whom all books are given,
    Who in mysterious Sinais awful cave
    To Man the wond'rous art of writing gave,
    Again he speaks in thunder and in fire!                
    Thunder of Thought, & flames of fierce desire:
    Even from the depths of Hell his voice I hear,
    Within the unfathomd caverns of my Ear.
    Therefore I print; nor vain my types shall be:
    Heaven, Earth & Hell, henceforth shall live in harmony" 
Yale Center for British Art
Jerusalem 
Plate 64, Detail

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