Art, Symbol & Imagination
The bowed skeleton beneath the verse
A skeletal figure bends forward, its ribs curving across the image and its skull resting near the ground. The stark anatomy sits below a narrow panel of illuminated verse. The whole leaf joins the poem’s language to a body shown through its bony framework.
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William Blake. "The bowed skeleton beneath the verse" [editorial title]. In The Book of Urizen, William Blake. undated edition. Source scan leaf 10. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/urizen-complete-10
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William Blake. The bowed skeleton beneath the verse. The Book of Urizen. Scan leaf 10. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/urizen-complete-10