spiritual, 142
women blamed for, 212. See also revolution
Ward, Aileen, 195
watchman, Los as, 177–81, 192
watercolors, 4–5, 31, 34, 105, 132, 195, 249
water symbolism, 125
Watts, Isaac, 51, 243
Way to Be Rich and Respectable, The (Trusler), 40
Webster, Brenda, 224
Wedgwood plates, 33
Welsh, Alexander, 80
Wesley, John, 51–52
Westminster Abbey, 10, 148, 229
Westminster Bridge, 89
Whatman paper, 29, 31
wheels, Blake conceit of, 160, 227
“wheel without wheel,” meaning of, 147–48
Whitman, Walt, 267
wicker man (Druid effigy), 190
Willan’s farm (London), 149, 150
William, prince of Great Britain, 148
William Blake’s Writings (Bentley ed.), 6
William Blake Trust, 4, 5
winged figures, 57
Wisdom, 237
“Wisdom” (Lawrie), 239, 240
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 124
Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 198
Woman Taken in Adultery, A (Romano), 137
women. See female headings; gender
Women’s Institute, 148
women’s suffrage movement, Jerusalem as anthem of, 148
Wood, Polly, 18
Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse, 135
word pronunciation. See pronunciation
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 94
Wordsworth, William, 9, 197, 216, 231, 232, 233
Blake and, 94
Excursion, 231, 264
Lyrical Ballads, 94
on Newton, 123, 125
Ode: Intimations of Immortality, 43, 231
Tintern Abbey, 231
workhouses, 62, 151, 153
World War II, 118
worm. See earthworm symbol
Wright, Joseph, A Blacksmith’s Shop, 172
Yahweh (God), 246
Yeats, W. B., 41
Young, Edward, Night thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality (Blake illus.), 16, 17, 18, 25, 93, 253
Youngquist, Paul, Madness and Blake’s Myth, 133
Zechariah (prophet), 153, 246
Zen masters, 270
Zephyr (wind), 229
Zeus (deity), 83
Zoas, 155–62, 239–45
breaking apart of, 172, 184
emanations of, 160–62, 172, 183, 218, 219–21
fall of, 173
as four psychic components of self, 140–41, 155–57
humanization of, 156–57, 158
interaction in Eternity of, 155, 157, 160, 161, 162, 172, 242
pronunciation of names of, 157, 172
reason for Blake’s invention of, 156. See also Book of Urizen; Four Zoas, The
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