Europe: A Prophecy

About this book

Enitharmon sleeps for eighteen hundred years. A trumpet sounds, and forces of rebellion begin to stir against powers that have governed the world through law and fear. William Blake tells Europe's history as a waking cosmic dream.

Orc's fire, Urizen's authority and other figures of Blake's mythology move through an illuminated poem engraved by the artist himself. Bodies and serpents wind around the verses. Its famous frontispiece shows a divine figure bending over a pair of compasses, a startling image of the power to shape and constrain a world.