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A fallen figure, Orc is the embodiment of rebellion, and stands opposed to <a href="/wiki/Urizen" title="Urizen">Urizen</a>, the embodiment of <a href="/wiki/Tradition" title="Tradition">tradition</a>. </p><p>In Blake's illuminated book <i><a href="/wiki/America_a_Prophecy" title="America a Prophecy">America a Prophecy</a></i>, Orc is described by his mythic opponent, "Albion's Angel" as the "Lover of Wild Rebellion, and transgressor of God's Law". He symbolizes the spirit of rebellion and freedom, which provoked the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orc_(Blake)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The name Orc is possibly an anagram of the word <i>cor</i> (heart), in that he was stated in Blake's myth to be born of <a href="/wiki/Enitharmon" title="Enitharmon">Enitharmon</a>'s heart, or <i>orca</i> (whale) because he sometimes takes the form of a whale. Orcus is also the <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> word for <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">Hell</a>, and Orc is presented as a rebellious, <a href="/wiki/Lucifer" title="Lucifer">Luciferian</a> character. He was created to serve as Blake's analysis of the revolutions in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> and <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Character">Character</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orc_(Blake)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Character"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Europe_a_Prophecy_copy_B_1794_Glasgow_University_Library_Title_object_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Europe_a_Prophecy_copy_B_1794_Glasgow_University_Library_Title_object_2.jpg/220px-Europe_a_Prophecy_copy_B_1794_Glasgow_University_Library_Title_object_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="298" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Europe_a_Prophecy_copy_B_1794_Glasgow_University_Library_Title_object_2.jpg/330px-Europe_a_Prophecy_copy_B_1794_Glasgow_University_Library_Title_object_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Europe_a_Prophecy_copy_B_1794_Glasgow_University_Library_Title_object_2.jpg/440px-Europe_a_Prophecy_copy_B_1794_Glasgow_University_Library_Title_object_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="729" data-file-height="989" /></a><figcaption>Some scholarship has identified the Snake on the front of "<a href="/wiki/Europe_a_Prophecy" title="Europe a Prophecy">Europe a Prophecy</a>" as another form of Orc, representing "the personification of revolutionary energy".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is copy B of the poem, printed in 1794 and currently held at the <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_University_Library" title="Glasgow University Library">Glasgow University Library</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In Blake's myth, Orc is seen as the first child of Los with Enitharmon and sometimes either replaced in that position by another or not mentioned as a child at all. In the <i>Four Zoas</i>, the children of Los represent a just form of wrath, pity, frustrated desire and logic, which serve as an analysis of Orc's being. Orc's creation was based on the split between Los and Enitharmon, and he transformed from a worm into the form of a serpent. Based on Orc's relationship with Enitharmon, there is a split between him and Los. Los uses the Chains of Jealousy to bind Orc upon a mountain, and Orc becomes part of the rock. While bound, his imagination is able to exist in a cave located in Urizen's kingdom, which wakes up Urizen. When Urizen seeks out Orc, Orc is freed as he changes into a serpent. The form is corrupted and he is turned into a satanic image. Orc spends his time rebelling against Urizen, and it is only when Urizen stops fighting Orc that Orc is able to become Luvah.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Orc is a force of revolution, revival, and of passion who is the polar opposite to Urizen, the cruel and tyrannous god. Orc is the force of new life in the cycle and Urizen represents the older version of Orc that dies at the end of the cycle. As such, Orc and Urizen appear in their evolution from one to the other in the "Seven Eyes of God", or the seven historical cycles of Blake's myth. Each cycle is divided into three phases, which begins with Orc's birth and then describes Orc's binding, which is connected to the time in a human's life where they are at their imaginative greatness. This is followed by the creation of abstract religion and a view of the universe as mechanical. This is then followed by rationalism, which led to Aristotle, Bacon, Locke and other empirical-based scientists. The second phase is where Urizen takes over the fallen world, which is represented by the Enlightenment in the seventh cycle. This leads to materialism, the death of the soul, and warfare. This phase ends with prophets declaring that Orc will appear. The third phase describes Orc's crucifixion and a return of human life to nature.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The character Orc is connected to the Biblical serpent, the image of being hanged on a dead tree, and to the sun. Of the latter, Orc's hair is like the sun and connects Orc to other stories, including that of Samson or of the death of the god Balder. Likewise, the tree image is similar to Odin's being speared and hanged upon a gallows-tree as a sacrifice. Since Odin is a hanged god and a tyrant, the image further connects the image of Orc with that of Urizen. Another image connected to Orc is that of the spear, a phallic symbol connected to the imagination. Orc uses the spear to attack Urizen, and the image also connects Orc to both Jesus and Odin as sacrifices to themselves. Like Jesus, Orc is also born around the winter solstice, a time when the sun is unable to warm the cold earth.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Orc is also connected to the inner workings of the human self. After Blake renounced the Orc men, the revolutionary leaders who he thought were like Orc, he distrusted all hero worship. Likewise, Blake believed that the imagination, represented by Orc, was purely mental and could not have the same form as a physical thing. Instead, it was part of the divine energy in man. As such, Orc is an internal life cycle that ends with a rebirth of the self. In general, Orc represented the freedom of the self in a Promethean manner, which connects Orc to Milton's version of Satan. In Blake's version, the true Satan was God, who created the physical reality, and the Satan/Orc figure represents the human desire which is transformed into accepting of law and reason. As such, Blake dismisses Milton's epic as lacking a hero and keeps Orc from being seen as a heroic figure.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Appearances">Appearances</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orc_(Blake)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Appearances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_Large_Book_of_Designs_copy_A_object_2_The_First_Book_of_Urizen_plate_21.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/A_Large_Book_of_Designs_copy_A_object_2_The_First_Book_of_Urizen_plate_21.jpg/220px-A_Large_Book_of_Designs_copy_A_object_2_The_First_Book_of_Urizen_plate_21.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="352" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/A_Large_Book_of_Designs_copy_A_object_2_The_First_Book_of_Urizen_plate_21.jpg/330px-A_Large_Book_of_Designs_copy_A_object_2_The_First_Book_of_Urizen_plate_21.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/A_Large_Book_of_Designs_copy_A_object_2_The_First_Book_of_Urizen_plate_21.jpg/440px-A_Large_Book_of_Designs_copy_A_object_2_The_First_Book_of_Urizen_plate_21.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1247" data-file-height="1994" /></a><figcaption>The child Orc with <a href="/wiki/Enitharmon" title="Enitharmon">Enitharmon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Los_(Blake)" title="Los (Blake)">Los</a>, in Blake's <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Large_Book_of_Designs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Large Book of Designs (page does not exist)">A Large Book of Designs</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Produced c. 1796, this print is copy A of object 2 in the copy currently held by the British Museum.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In <i>America a Prophecy</i> (1793), Orc is described as a threat to the British colonies in America and to society. The angel of Albion sees Orc as an antichrist figure, and Orc views the prince of Albion as a dragon. During the work, Orc has an apocalyptic vision where the empire is destroyed and the oppressors of the world are stopped. Following the vision, Orc is able to get the Americans to rise up in revolution and they begin to attack their oppressors through a mental revolution.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>Europe a Prophecy</i> (1794), Orc is connected to the revolution in France but it is Los who calls the people to revolution.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>The Song of Los</i>, Orc provokes thought within the second half, "Asia", which unsettles the kings of earth, and Orc is described as raging across Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In these continental works, Los and Orc are seen as describing an apocalypse that would result in freedom.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i>The Book of Urizen</i>, the African civilization ends along with the third cycle, describing Adam and Eve, ending. Orc, symbolized as the serpent in the Garden of Eden, is cursed. This is followed in <i>The Book of Ahania</i> of a new cycle beginning in Asia, which parallels Exodus. Within the Israelite civilization, an Orc and an Urizen figure battles against each other with Orc representing a pillar of fire that guides the Israelites during the night while Urizen is a pillar of cloud that seeks to mislead them. Urizen is able to win over the Israelites by giving them the ten commandments and moral laws. These commandments are attacked by Orc in <i>America a Prophecy</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later in <i>Vala</i>, Orc describes the divided aspects of the soul, which, in Blake's mythological system, God has a twofold essence that is capable of good and evil. This idea parallels Blake's personal belief that there was a division within himself.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this later work, Orc is born during the winter solstice and Urizen begins to search for him. Urizen, during this time, becomes witness to the life cycles of which Orc is a part. When Urizen finally reaches Orc, the view of the Orc cycle is described in a deistic manner, a perspective which is arguably the opposite of Blake's own theological convictions. Urizen, believing that Orc is connected to chaos, seeks predictability and order. He seeks to do so by creating laws which enslave humankind. Urizen crucifies Orc, in the form of a serpent, and war spreads over the land.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i>The Four Zoas</i> this is overridden: there the parents produce the four sons <a href="/wiki/Rintrah" title="Rintrah">Rintrah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palamabron" title="Palamabron">Palamabron</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bromion" title="Bromion">Bromion</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Theotormon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Theotormon (page does not exist)">Theotormon</a>. This is a double-dialectical analysis, rather than an inconsistency as such. </p><p>On the other hand Orc is connected to <a href="/wiki/Luvah" title="Luvah">Luvah</a> in <i>The Four Zoas</i> VIII. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_fiction">In fiction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orc_(Blake)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: In fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In his <a href="/wiki/World_of_Tiers" title="World of Tiers">World of Tiers</a> series, <a href="/wiki/Philip_Jose_Farmer" class="mw-redirect" title="Philip Jose Farmer">Philip Jose Farmer</a> included numerous characters with Blakian names; two are "Blind Orc" and "Red Orc". They are not Tolkien orcs, but are human-like "Lords" who create artificial worlds. Red Orc is the "secret Lord of Earth". </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Ridley_Scott" title="Ridley Scott">Ridley Scott</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Blade_Runner" title="Blade Runner">Blade Runner</a></i> (1982), one of the lines by Roy Batty is a misquote of Blake's poem: "Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc". This line was suggested by Rutger Hauer, adapted from Blake's <i><a href="/wiki/America:_a_Prophecy" class="mw-redirect" title="America: a Prophecy">America: a Prophecy</a>.</i> "Fiery the angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd. 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div id="Literary_works" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Literary works</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Early writings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Poetical_Sketches" title="Poetical Sketches">Poetical Sketches</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/An_Island_in_the_Moon" title="An Island in the Moon">An Island in the Moon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_Religions_are_One" title="All 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class="mw-redirect" title="Night (Blake)">Night</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spring_(poem)" title="Spring (poem)">Spring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nurse%27s_Song" title="Nurse's Song">Nurse's Song</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Infant_Joy" title="Infant Joy">Infant Joy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Dream_(Blake_poem)" title="A Dream (Blake poem)">A Dream</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/On_Another%27s_Sorrow" title="On Another's Sorrow">On Another's Sorrow</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i>Songs of Experience</i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Introduction_(Blake,_1794)" title="Introduction (Blake, 1794)">Introduction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth%27s_Answer" title="Earth's Answer">Earth's Answer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Clod_and_the_Pebble" title="The Clod and the Pebble">The Clod and the Pebble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Thursday_(Songs_of_Experience)" title="Holy Thursday (Songs of Experience)">Holy Thursday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Little_Girl_Lost" title="The Little Girl Lost">The Little Girl Lost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Little_Girl_Found" title="The Little Girl Found">The Little Girl Found</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Chimney_Sweeper" title="The Chimney Sweeper">The Chimney Sweeper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nurse%27s_Song" title="Nurse's Song">Nurse's Song</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Sick_Rose" title="The Sick Rose">The Sick Rose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fly_(poem)" title="The Fly (poem)">The Fly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Angel_(Songs_of_Experience)" title="The Angel (Songs of Experience)">The Angel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Tyger" title="The Tyger">The Tyger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/My_Pretty_Rose_Tree" title="My Pretty Rose Tree">My Pretty Rose Tree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ah!_Sun-flower" title="Ah! Sun-flower">Ah! Sun-flower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Lilly_(poem)" title="The Lilly (poem)">The Lilly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Garden_of_Love_(poem)" title="The Garden of Love (poem)">The Garden of Love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Little_Vagabond" title="The Little Vagabond">The Little Vagabond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_(William_Blake_poem)" title="London (William Blake poem)">London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Human_Abstract_(poem)" title="The Human Abstract (poem)">The Human Abstract</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Infant_Sorrow" title="Infant Sorrow">Infant Sorrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Poison_Tree" title="A Poison Tree">A Poison Tree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Little_Boy_Lost" title="A Little Boy Lost">A Little Boy Lost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Little_Girl_Lost" title="A Little Girl Lost">A Little Girl Lost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/To_Tirzah" title="To Tirzah">To Tirzah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_School_Boy" title="The School Boy">The School Boy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Voice_of_the_Ancient_Bard" title="The Voice of the Ancient Bard">The Voice of the Ancient Bard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Divine_Image" title="A Divine Image">A Divine Image</a> (found only in Copy BB)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_prophetic_books" title="William Blake's prophetic books">Prophetic<br /> books</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">The <a href="/wiki/Continental_prophecies" title="Continental prophecies">continental<br /> prophecies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/America_a_Prophecy" title="America a Prophecy">America a Prophecy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Europe_a_Prophecy" title="Europe a Prophecy">Europe a Prophecy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Song_of_Los" title="The Song of Los">The Song of Los</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Tiriel_(poem)" title="Tiriel (poem)">Tiriel</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Thel" title="The Book of Thel">The Book of Thel</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Marriage_of_Heaven_and_Hell" title="The Marriage of Heaven and Hell">The Marriage of Heaven and Hell</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_French_Revolution_(poem)" title="The French Revolution (poem)">The French Revolution</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Visions_of_the_Daughters_of_Albion" title="Visions of the Daughters of Albion">Visions of the Daughters of Albion</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Urizen" title="The Book of Urizen">The Book of Urizen</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Ahania" title="The Book of Ahania">The Book of Ahania</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Los" title="The Book of Los">The Book of Los</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vala,_or_The_Four_Zoas" title="Vala, or The Four Zoas">The Four Zoas</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Milton:_A_Poem_in_Two_Books" title="Milton: A Poem in Two Books">Milton</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jerusalem:_The_Emanation_of_the_Giant_Albion" title="Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion">Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">The Pickering Manuscript</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Auguries_of_Innocence" title="Auguries of Innocence">Auguries of Innocence</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Mental_Traveller" title="The Mental Traveller">The Mental Traveller</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">The <a href="/wiki/Notebook_of_William_Blake" title="Notebook of William Blake">Rossetti Manuscript</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">"<a href="/wiki/Never_pain_to_tell_thy_love" title="Never pain to tell thy love">Never pain to tell thy love</a>"</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible uncollapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div id="Mythology" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_mythology" title="William Blake's mythology">Mythology</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ahania" title="Ahania">Ahania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albion_(Blake)" title="Albion (Blake)">Albion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beulah_(Blake)" title="Beulah (Blake)">Beulah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bromion" title="Bromion">Bromion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enion" title="Enion">Enion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enitharmon" title="Enitharmon">Enitharmon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuzon_(Blake)" title="Fuzon (Blake)">Fuzon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golgonooza" title="Golgonooza">Golgonooza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grodna_(Blake)" title="Grodna (Blake)">Grodna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Har_(Blake)" title="Har (Blake)">Har</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leutha" title="Leutha">Leutha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_(Blake)" title="Los (Blake)">Los</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luvah" title="Luvah">Luvah</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Orc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palamabron" title="Palamabron">Palamabron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spectre_(Blake)" title="Spectre (Blake)">Spectre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tharmas" title="Tharmas">Tharmas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thiriel" title="Thiriel">Thiriel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiriel_(character)" title="Tiriel (character)">Tiriel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urizen" title="Urizen">Urizen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urthona" title="Urthona">Urthona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utha" title="Utha">Utha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vala_(Blake)" title="Vala (Blake)">Vala</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div id="Art" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Art</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Paintings<br />and prints</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All_Religions_are_One#Relief_etching" title="All Religions are One">Relief etching</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Original_Stories_from_Real_Life#Illustrations" title="Original Stories from Real Life">Engravings for <i>Original Stories from Real Life</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ancient_of_Days" title="The Ancient of Days">The Ancient of Days</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Europe_Supported_by_Africa_and_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Europe Supported by Africa and America">Europe Supported by Africa and America</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Night_of_Enitharmon%27s_Joy" title="The Night of Enitharmon's Joy">The Night of Enitharmon's Joy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Newton_(Blake)" title="Newton (Blake)">Newton</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar_(Blake)" title="Nebuchadnezzar (Blake)">Nebuchadnezzar</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Night-Thoughts#Blake's_illustrations_of_1795–97" title="Night-Thoughts">Illustrations for <i>Night-Thoughts</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Grave_(poem)#Publication_by_Cromek_and_Blake's_illustrations" title="The Grave (poem)">Illustrations of <i>The Grave</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Four_and_Twenty_Elders_Casting_their_Crowns_before_the_Divine_Throne" title="The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne">The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_illustrations_of_Paradise_Lost" title="William Blake's illustrations of Paradise Lost">Illustrations of <i>Paradise Lost</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Vision_of_the_Last_Judgement" title="A Vision of the Last Judgement">A Vision of the Last Judgement</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Descriptive_Catalogue_(1809)" title="Descriptive Catalogue (1809)">Descriptive Catalogue</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Red_Dragon_paintings" title="The Great Red Dragon paintings"><i>The Great Red Dragon</i> paintings</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pity_(William_Blake)" title="Pity (William Blake)">Pity</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ghost_of_a_Flea" title="The Ghost of a Flea">The Ghost of a Flea</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Agony_in_the_Garden_(Blake)" title="Agony in the Garden (Blake)">Agony in the Garden</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_illustrations_of_On_the_Morning_of_Christ%27s_Nativity" title="William Blake's illustrations of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity">Illustrations of <i>On the Morning of Christ's Nativity</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wood_of_the_Self-Murderers:_The_Harpies_and_the_Suicides" title="The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides">The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_Illustrations_of_the_Book_of_Job" title="William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job"><i>Illustrations of the Book of Job</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sketches</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Visionary_Heads" title="Visionary Heads">Visionary Heads</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div id="Scholarship,_in_popular_culture,_and_more" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Scholarship, in popular culture, and more</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Scholarly works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Life_of_William_Blake" title="Life of William Blake">Life of William Blake</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Works_of_William_Blake:_Poetic,_Symbolic_and_Critical" class="mw-redirect" title="The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical">The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fearful_Symmetry_(book)" title="Fearful Symmetry (book)">Fearful Symmetry</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blake:_Prophet_Against_Empire" title="Blake: Prophet Against Empire">Blake: Prophet Against Empire</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Witness_Against_the_Beast" title="Witness Against the Beast">Witness Against the Beast</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Musical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Serenade_for_Tenor,_Horn_and_Strings" title="Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings">Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings</a></i> (1943)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ten_Blake_Songs" title="Ten Blake Songs">Ten Blake Songs</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Songs_and_Proverbs_of_William_Blake" title="Songs and Proverbs of William Blake">Songs and Proverbs of William Blake</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lamb_(Tavener)" title="The Lamb (Tavener)">The Lamb</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Themes_from_William_Blake%27s_The_Marriage_of_Heaven_and_Hell" title="Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell">Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell</a></i> (1998)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake_in_popular_culture" title="William Blake in popular culture">William Blake in popular culture</a></li> <li><a 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