Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Selections From the Symbolical Poems of William Blake
Blake, like Berkeley, believed that mind is everything and matter non existent; hence for him the brain of man was an arena at once $5511 Ea lantern and great as the universe, and in the brain of man the events of his poems occur. In that arena, where a less stormy genius had before located Pilgrim's Progress, move Titan Miltonic figures, reducing worlds to chaos or chaos to worlds. They are our passions, reasonings, impulses, godlike, demonlike, groping, erring, aspiring, dreaming and suffering. Chief among them tower the four Zoas or mental kings, spirits of intellect, emotion, sensuousness, and energy, and the beautiful, godlike figure of imaginative insight. Around them move such a confusing swarm of lesser figures as could be paralleled only from Brahmin cosmogony.
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