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- Title
AN UNNOTICED ALLUSION BY WILLIAM BLAKE TO GNOSTIC LITERATURE.
- Authors
Miner, Paul
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the poem "Jerusalem" by William Blake is presented. It explores an allusion to gnostic literature in one of Blake's plate emblems, comparing Blake's use of the Beast, Leviathan, and Behemoth images to similar ones in gnostic cosmology. It discusses Blake's images of the manipulation of night by the bestial Specter and the Divine Vision of the heavens in relation to gnostic cosmological hierarchies. Blake's description of Tartarus, Gehenna, and Bath, England are mentioned.
- Subjects
JERUSALEM: The Emanation of the Great Albion (Poem); GNOSTICISM in literature; BLAKE, William, 1757-1827; GNOSTIC literature; LEVIATHAN; BEHEMOTH; BEAST of the Apocalypse; CRITICISM
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2008, Vol 55, Issue 1, p26
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjm272