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.mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the character in <a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_mythology" title="William Blake's mythology">William Blake's mythology</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Har_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Har (disambiguation)">Har (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p><p><i><b>Har</b></i> is a character in the <a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_mythology" title="William Blake's mythology">mythological writings</a> of <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>, who roughly corresponds to an aged <a href="/wiki/Adam" title="Adam">Adam</a>. His wife, Heva, corresponds to <a href="/wiki/Eve" title="Eve">Eve</a>. Har appears in <i><a href="/wiki/Tiriel_(poem)" title="Tiriel (poem)">Tiriel</a></i> (1789) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Song_of_Los" title="The Song of Los">The Song of Los</a></i> (1795) and is briefly mentioned in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Thel" title="The Book of Thel">The Book of Thel</a></i> (1790) and <i><a href="/wiki/Vala,_or_The_Four_Zoas" title="Vala, or The Four Zoas">Vala, or The Four Zoas</a></i> (1796-1803). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Har_(Blake)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis"><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:Tiriel_plate2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Tiriel_plate2.jpg/220px-Tiriel_plate2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Tiriel_plate2.jpg/330px-Tiriel_plate2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Tiriel_plate2.jpg/440px-Tiriel_plate2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1156" data-file-height="782" /></a><figcaption>"Har and Heva bathing"; Har and Heva are shown naked in a shallow stream whilst Mnetha lies behind looking on.</figcaption></figure> <p>Many years before <i>Tiriel</i> begins, Har was overthrown by his children, <a href="/wiki/Tiriel_(character)" title="Tiriel (character)">Tiriel</a>, Ijim and Zazel. As time went by, he and his wife, Heva, came to reside in the Vales of Har, where they gradually succumbed to <a href="/wiki/Dementia" title="Dementia">dementia</a>, regressing to a childlike state to such an extent that they came to think their guardian, Mnetha, is their mother, spending their days chasing birds and singing in a "great cage" (<i>Tiriel</i>; 3:21). After Tiriel loses his throne to his own children, he visits Har and Heva. Excited by the visit, although unaware that Tiriel is their son, they ask him to stay with them, but he refuses and resumes his wanderings. Later, after Tiriel has had most of his own children killed, he returns to the Vales with the express purpose of condemning his parents and the way they brought him up, declaring that Har's laws and his own wisdom now "end together in a curse" (8:8); </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>The child springs from the <a href="/wiki/Uterus" title="Uterus">womb</a>. the father ready stands to form<br /> The infant head while the mother idle plays with her dog on her couch<br /> The young bosom is cold for lack of mothers nourishment & milk<br /> Is cut off from the weeping mouth with difficulty & pain<br /> The little lids are lifted & the little nostrils opend<br /> The father forms a whip to rouze the sluggish senses to act<br /> And scourges off all youthful fancies from the newborn man<br /> Then walks the weak infant in sorrow compelld to number footsteps<br /> Upon the sand. &c<br /> And when the drone has reachd his crawling length<br /> Black berries appear that poison all around him. Such was Tiriel<br /> Compelld to pray repugnant & to humble the immortal spirit<br /> Till I am subtil as a serpent in a <a href="/wiki/Paradise" title="Paradise">paradise</a><br /> Consuming all both flowers & fruits insects & warbling birds<br /> And now my paradise is falln & a drear sandy plain<br /> Returns my thirsty hissings in a curse on thee O Har<br /> Mistaken father of a lawless race my voice is past<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> <div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><i>Tiriel</i> 8:12-28</cite></div></blockquote> <p>Upon this declamation, Tiriel then dies at their feet. </p><p>In the <i>Africa</i> section of the later poem <i>The Song of Los</i> (1795), which is set chronologically before <i>Tiriel</i>, Har and Heva are forced to flee into the wilderness, after their family rebel against them. In their exile in the desert, they then turn into reptiles. </p> <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=Har_(Blake)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mary S. Hall believes that Har's name is derived from <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Bryant" title="Jacob Bryant">Jacob Bryant</a>'s <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_New_System_or_Analysis_of_Antient_Mythology&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A New System or Analysis of Antient Mythology (page does not exist)">A New System or Analysis of Antient Mythology</a></i> (1776), where Bryant conflates the <a href="/wiki/Amazons" title="Amazons">Amazonian</a> deities Harmon and Ares with the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion" title="Ancient Egyptian religion">Egyptian</a> deity <a href="/wiki/Harmonia_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Harmonia (mythology)">Harmonia</a>, wife of <a href="/wiki/Cadmus" title="Cadmus">Cadmus</a>. Blake had engraved plates for the book in the early 1780s, so he would certainly have been familiar with its content.<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> </p><p>As a character, <a href="/wiki/S._Foster_Damon" title="S. Foster Damon">S. Foster Damon</a> believes that Har represents both the "<a href="/wiki/Augustan_poetry" title="Augustan poetry">decadent poetry</a> of Blake's day"<sup id="cite_ref-S._Foster_Damon,_''A_Blake_Dictionary:_The_Ideas_and_Symbols_of_William_Blake''_(Hanover:_University_Press_of_New_England_1965;_revised_ed._1988),_174_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-S._Foster_Damon,_''A_Blake_Dictionary:_The_Ideas_and_Symbols_of_William_Blake''_(Hanover:_University_Press_of_New_England_1965;_revised_ed._1988),_174-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the traditional spirit of <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>.<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> <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Frye" title="Northrop Frye">Northrop Frye</a> reaches a similar conclusion but also sees divergence in the character, arguing that although Har and Heva are based on <a href="/wiki/Adam" title="Adam">Adam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eve" title="Eve">Eve</a>, "Har is distinguished from Adam. Adam is ordinary man in his mixed twofold nature of imagination and <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_self" title="Philosophy of self">Selfhood</a>. Har is the human Selfhood which, though men spend most of their time trying to express it, never achieves reality and is identified only as death. Har, unlike Adam, never outgrows his garden but remains there shut up from the world in a permanent state of near-existence."<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> <a href="/wiki/Harold_Bloom" title="Harold Bloom">Harold Bloom</a> agrees with this interpretation, arguing that "Har is natural man, the isolated selfhood." Bloom also believes that Har is comparable to Struldbruggs from <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels" title="Gulliver's Travels">Gulliver's Travels</a></i> (1726) and <a href="/wiki/Tithonus" title="Tithonus">Tithonus</a> from <a href="/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson" title="Alfred, Lord Tennyson">Alfred, Lord Tennyson</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Tithonus_(poem)" title="Tithonus (poem)">poem of the same name</a> (1859).<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>'Har' is the Hebrew word for 'mountain', thus giving an inherent irony to the phrase "Vales of Har". Damon believes this conveys the ironic sense that "he who was a mountain now lives in a vale, cut off from mankind.<sup id="cite_ref-S._Foster_Damon,_''A_Blake_Dictionary:_The_Ideas_and_Symbols_of_William_Blake''_(Hanover:_University_Press_of_New_England_1965;_revised_ed._1988),_174_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-S._Foster_Damon,_''A_Blake_Dictionary:_The_Ideas_and_Symbols_of_William_Blake''_(Hanover:_University_Press_of_New_England_1965;_revised_ed._1988),_174-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Blake's_mythology"><span id="Blake.27s_mythology"></span>Blake's mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Har_(Blake)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Blake's mythology"><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:The_Song_of_Los,_Plate_4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/The_Song_of_Los%2C_Plate_4.jpg/220px-The_Song_of_Los%2C_Plate_4.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="332" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/The_Song_of_Los%2C_Plate_4.jpg/330px-The_Song_of_Los%2C_Plate_4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/The_Song_of_Los%2C_Plate_4.jpg/440px-The_Song_of_Los%2C_Plate_4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1745" data-file-height="2633" /></a><figcaption><i>The Song of Los</i>, Plate 4, showing Har and Heva fleeing from the "War & Lust" of their brethren.</figcaption></figure> <p>Both Har and the Vales of Har feature in Blake's subsequent prophetic work. The Vales of Har are mentioned in <i>The Book of Thel</i> (1790), and it is in the Vales where lives Thel herself. Throughout the poem they are represented as a place of purity and innocence; "I walk through the vales of Har. and smell the sweetest flowers" (3:18). At the end of the poem, when Thel is shown the world of experience outside the Vales, she panics and flees back to the safety of her home; "The Virgin started from her seat, & with a shriek./Fled back unhinderd till she came into the vales of Har" (6:21-22). </p><p>In the <i>Africa</i> section <i>The Song of Los</i> (1795), which is set chronologically before <i>Tiriel</i>, Har and Heva flee into the wilderness, after their family rebel against them: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Since that dread day when Har and Heva fled.<br /> Because their brethren & sisters liv'd in War & Lust;<br /> And as they fled they shrunk<br /> Into two narrow doleful forms:<br /> Creeping in reptile flesh upon<br /> The bosom of the ground:<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> <div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><i>The Song of Los</i>: plate 4, lines 4-9</cite></div></blockquote> <p>Damon refers to this transformation as turning them into "serpents of materialism," which he relates to their role in <i>Tiriel</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-S._Foster_Damon,_''A_Blake_Dictionary:_The_Ideas_and_Symbols_of_William_Blake''_(Hanover:_University_Press_of_New_England_1965;_revised_ed._1988),_174_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-S._Foster_Damon,_''A_Blake_Dictionary:_The_Ideas_and_Symbols_of_William_Blake''_(Hanover:_University_Press_of_New_England_1965;_revised_ed._1988),_174-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Har and Ijim are also briefly mentioned in <i>Vala, or The Four Zoas</i> (1796-1803), where Har is the sixteenth son of <a href="/wiki/Los_(Blake)" title="Los (Blake)">Los</a> and <a href="/wiki/Enitharmon" title="Enitharmon">Enitharmon</a>, and Ijim the eighteenth. 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Erdman">Erdman, David V.</a> (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/completepoetrypr00blak/page/285"><i>The Complete Poetry and Prose</i></a> (Newly revised ed.). Anchor Books. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/completepoetrypr00blak/page/285">285</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0385152132" title="Special:BookSources/0385152132"><bdi>0385152132</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Complete+Poetry+and+Prose&rft.pages=285&rft.edition=Newly+revised&rft.pub=Anchor+Books&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=0385152132&rft.aulast=Blake&rft.aufirst=William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcompletepoetrypr00blak%2Fpage%2F285&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHar+%28Blake%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/David_V._Erdman" title="David V. Erdman">David V. Erdman</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Blake:_Prophet_Against_Empire" title="Blake: Prophet Against Empire">Blake: Prophet Against Empire</a></i> (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954; 2nd ed. 1969; 3rd ed. 1977) 133n41</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-S._Foster_Damon,_''A_Blake_Dictionary:_The_Ideas_and_Symbols_of_William_Blake''_(Hanover:_University_Press_of_New_England_1965;_revised_ed._1988),_174-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-S._Foster_Damon,_''A_Blake_Dictionary:_The_Ideas_and_Symbols_of_William_Blake''_(Hanover:_University_Press_of_New_England_1965;_revised_ed._1988),_174_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-S._Foster_Damon,_''A_Blake_Dictionary:_The_Ideas_and_Symbols_of_William_Blake''_(Hanover:_University_Press_of_New_England_1965;_revised_ed._1988),_174_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-S._Foster_Damon,_''A_Blake_Dictionary:_The_Ideas_and_Symbols_of_William_Blake''_(Hanover:_University_Press_of_New_England_1965;_revised_ed._1988),_174_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/S._Foster_Damon" title="S. Foster Damon">S. Foster Damon</a>, <i>A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake</i> (Hanover: University Press of New England 1965; revised ed. 1988), 174</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Damon, <i>A Blake Dictionary</i>, 405</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Northrop_Frye" title="Northrop Frye">Northrop Frye</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Fearful_Symmetry_(Frye)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fearful Symmetry (Frye)">Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake</a></i> (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947), 242</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Harold_Bloom" title="Harold Bloom">Harold Bloom</a>, "Commentary" in David V. Erdman (ed.), <i>The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake</i> (New York: Anchor Press, 1965; 2nd ed. 1982), 946</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBlake1988" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">Blake, William</a> (1988). <a href="/wiki/David_V._Erdman" title="David V. Erdman">Erdman, David V.</a> (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/completepoetrypr00blak/page/68"><i>The Complete Poetry and Prose</i></a> (Newly revised ed.). 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i>Songs of Innocence</i></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/The_Shepherd_(Blake)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Shepherd (Blake)">The Shepherd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Echoing_Green" title="The Echoing Green">The Ecchoing Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Lamb_(poem)" title="The Lamb (poem)">The Lamb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Little_Black_Boy" title="The Little Black Boy">The Little Black Boy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Blossom" title="The Blossom">The Blossom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Chimney_Sweeper" title="The Chimney Sweeper">The Chimney Sweeper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Little_Boy_Lost" title="The Little Boy Lost">The Little Boy Lost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Little_Boy_Found" title="The Little Boy Found">The Little Boy Found</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laughing_Song" title="Laughing Song">Laughing Song</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Cradle_Song" title="A Cradle Song">A Cradle Song</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Divine_Image" class="mw-redirect" title="The Divine Image">The Divine Image</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Thursday_(Songs_of_Innocence)" title="Holy Thursday (Songs of Innocence)">Holy Thursday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Night_(Blake)" 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 class="mw-selflink selflink">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 href="/wiki/Orc_(Blake)" title="Orc (Blake)">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 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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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