William Blake’s Mythical Cosmology in The Book of Thel and the Visions of the Daughters of Albion

William Blake has depicted his own unique geography in his prophetic books, also reflected in some of his shorter narrative poems such as The Book of Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion. This research sets to analyze Blake’s portray of his cosmology in these two poems to see how different stages of his cosmology, specially, Beulah and the realm of Generation, work differently according to the Blakean four states of being. In each of these four states, the characters pass different stages of human soul which were first introduced by Blake in his Songs of Innocence and of Experience. These stages of human soul, innocence, experience, and organized innocence, should be passed respectively if one is to prosper. It is contended that among many characters of the two narrative poems, it is only Oothoon who can endure the throes of the realm of Generation and later reach the state of organized innocence.

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William Blake ، Visions of the Daughters of Albion ، The Book of Thel ، Beulah ، Generation.