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Timeline (1757 - 1827)

William Blake, William Blake poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Christian poetry

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Original Language
English

Reader! of books! of heaven (from Jerusalem)

Themes

Fire

Sound

Recommended Books

	Blake Dictionary: The Ideas & Symbols of William Blake, by S. Foster Damon
	Blake: Collected Poems, by William Blake / Edited by William Butler Yeats
	Blake's America: A Prophecy and Europe: A Prophecy: Facsimile Reproductions of Two Illuminated Books, by William Blake
	Blake's Poetry and Designs: Authoritative Texts, Illuminations in Color and Monochrome, Related Prose, Criticism, by William Blake / Edited by John F. Grant
	The Book of Urizen: A Facsimily in Full Color, by William Blake

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Reader! of books! of heaven,
And of that God from whom
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

-- from The Complete Illuminated Books, by William Blake

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