The Book Of Los by William Blake
A mythic, prophetic poem that follows Los, the embodiment of imaginative and creative energy, as he forges the material world and becomes entrapped by the very systems of law, reason, and time he helps to construct. Through dense symbolic episodes the narrative charts his labor, fall, and resistance, offering a critique of mechanistic rationality and institutional oppression while probing cycles of division, suffering, and the possibility of spiritual renewal. Blake’s intense fusion of text and engraved image emphasizes imagination’s struggle against restrictive order and the hope of visionary liberation.
- Published
- 1795
- Nationality
- English
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- English
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