Europe a Prophecy

Europe a Prophecy

"Europe a Prophecy" is a 1794 prophetic book by English poet and illustrator William Blake.

It is engraved on 18 plates, and survives in just nine known copies. [ [http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/public/update-498.html William Blake Archive Update ] ] It followed "America a Prophecy" of 1793.

Northrop Frye ["Fearful Symmetry" (1947), p.185.] regarded it as Blake's greatest achievement in his personal form of mixed free verse. According to John Beer ["William Blake: A Literary Life" (2005), p.82.]

The drift of the argument in "Europe" is to show how a Christian message that has been veiled, and cults exalting virginity, have together fostered the so-called Enlightenment philosophy which left no place for the visionary.

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* [http://www.poetseers.org/the_poetseers/blake/europe_a_prophecy Online text]
* [http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=europe&java=no Blake Archive page]


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