Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

About this book

A sleeping giant, a city imagined as a woman, and a prophetic blacksmith struggling to make human history whole. William Blake turns the story of Albion into a vast spiritual drama written across poetry and illuminated images.

Jerusalem is among Blake's most ambitious creations. Figures such as Los, Vala and Jerusalem move through a changing symbolic landscape of division, punishment and possible restoration. Its intricacy rewards slow reading, while the engraved pages provide another language through which the poem can be approached.