Art, Symbol & Imagination
The windswept prelude to The First Book of Urizen
A figure’s green robes stream across the upper half of this illuminated prelude, reaching towards a smaller horizontal body. Below them, curling gold forms frame the words The First Book of Urizen. Blake places the poem’s introduction inside the same continuous field of movement and colour.
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William Blake. "The windswept prelude to The First Book of Urizen" [editorial title]. In The Book of Urizen, William Blake. undated edition. Source scan leaf 2. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/urizen-complete-02
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William Blake. The windswept prelude to The First Book of Urizen. The Book of Urizen. Scan leaf 2. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/urizen-complete-02