Jerusalem (Summarized Edition)
Enriched edition. Visionary mysticism and Christian allegory in a heavenly England: prophetic songs of universal love amid British myth and the Industrial AgeBy William Blake
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Jerusalem, The Emanation of the Giant Albion (c. 1804–1820) is Blake's culminating prophetic book: a visionary epic of Albion's fall and regeneration through Jerusalem, Los, and the Spectre. Its biblical cadences and Miltonic reach mingle with Blake's mythopoeia to contest Urizenic rationalism and industrial modernity. Relief-etched pages braid text and image, mapping London and Britain as spiritual terrains in long, flexible unrhymed lines, and staging a Romantic-era counter-Enlightenment intervention. An engraver, printer, and visionary poet, Blake forged Jerusalem from a lifetime of artisanal independence and dissenting faith. London streets, Lambeth and Felpham sojourns, and a near-sedition trial sharpened his resistance to church-and-state coercion. Swedenborgian currents, Boehme, Milton, and revolutionary hopes converge in his doctrine of the Divine Humanity, realized through the self-published, illuminated composite art. Readers of Romanticism, theology, and visual culture will find Jerusalem exacting yet inexhaustible. Read it with the plates, letting image annotate verse; use annotations sparingly, trusting its visionary logic. For scholars and seekers alike, it offers a radical cartography of psyche and nation—and a still-urgent summons to imaginative freedom.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
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Publish dateApr 8, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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